GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 746131
The overlay controls comes in the way of the viewing
Last modified: 2021-06-19 08:47:39 UTC
Created attachment 299265 [details] controls on top of the image blocks the image Please see the attachment, The rotate left, rotate right, back and forward overlayed icons are obstructing the image from being seen. Using the image viewer we expect to see the image not the controls on the Image. Yes, the controls hide when we move the mouse pointer away, but how do we point and click to a particular region in the picture using the mouse pointer when there's the controls blocking the image as soon as we move the mouse? Please reconsider the design and usability of the 'overlayed' controls inside the viewer. The header bar could be a good place for that, like in evince and epiphany. Thanks.
I agree that they appear a bit too eagerly and are a bit too persistent, maybe. But why do you want to 'point and click a particular region' ? No functionality tied to that in eog, currently... I think the redesign of eog was meant to result in something a little more easy and fun than a pdf reader or web browser, which is why some design choices here are different.
When we are with others and want to show someone our something in a group photo, and we want bring the attention there with mouse pointer, especially on a larger display or in projector. Clicking may be required to draw a selection box
there's no selection box
maybe there should be a way to select a rectangle to zoom to or highlight, but there isn't
So, I made the buttons disappear a bit faster as an initial measure: commit 76740faf9648ad9f071dadaf8f7e014fcf7d90ef Author: Felix Riemann <> Date: Mon Mar 16 19:53:04 2015 +0100 EogScrollView: Hide the overlay buttons faster Reduces the motion timeout to one second and uses more precise timing as the previous timing could drift by nearly a second. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746131 I'd like to avoid moving the buttons to the headerbar as that would mean another four buttons there, making it pretty crowed. In general the buttons in their current state are a first try at modernizing the UI and making more space available for the image. The way the buttons work is not set in stone and could be improved further in the next cycle. For example one could think about showing the buttons only when moving the moving the mouse close to the image borders or after having moved the mouse for a given distance (however, this sounds quite complex). We'll see once 3.16 has received some broader usage. For rectangle zooming there was AFAIR a plugin on eog-list that implemented this. I don't know whether it works with the new UI though.
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