GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 607071
Wrap arrow key navigation when viewing folders in thumbnail mode
Last modified: 2010-10-29 22:27:44 UTC
When in folder view (Alt+1), in thumbnail mode (not list mode), there can be several columns of thumbnails depending on the space in the thumbnail column. Navigation is possible using the arrow keys. Up, down, right, left. There is one annoyance, though. When on the left column, left arrow does not bring the selection on the upper row, rightmost thumbnail. Conversely, when on right column, right arrow does not bring the selection on the lower row, leftmost thumb. Because of that, it is not possible to go through the pictures one by one in order using the arrow keys. For instance, if you have 3 columns, to go from picture 3 to picture 4, you have to go through 2-1-4 or 6-5-4. I'm not sure this is so easy to improve, since the browser may well be a dependancy. I don't have a clue about it.
Hi Jérôme, I confirm this behavior, which is present in 2.10.x and 2.11.x Personally it doesn't bother me (I don't browse my pictures with the keyboard) but I can understand the annoyance. The browser mode should behave like Nautilus (or any file browser), just like you describe it. I think it's more of a minor bug that a feature request. Paolo, It should be easy to fix, no? Cheers, Matthias
You're right. I never use icon view in my browser, so I didn't know what the usual behaviour was. Just tried with thunar and it behaves juste like I would like gthumb to. Thanks for answering.
this behavior should be implemented in the GtkIconView widget
it's a duplicate *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 343492 ***
*** Bug 631197 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***