GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 540684
keep expansion in metadata dialog
Last modified: 2021-06-19 08:46:47 UTC
Currently, when viewing an image and wanting to see the exif data, you have to open the 'properties' -> 'metadata' dialog. then there is a lot of information and on the bottom the 'details' section. When expanding the 'details' section and expanding a subsection there, the selection does not stay when continuing to the next picture. Additionally I would like to change the ratio of given information and details (with some kind of slider, like the one used for frames in some browsers) Other information:
The problem is that currently we reset completely the model in the treeview. One way to fix this would be to, instead of resetting it, just update each of the rows, but that would mess with the fact that not all images have the same metadata tags and we would need to be removing/adding them selectively. Not very nice. Other approach would be to keep reference of the sections expanded and the one currently selected, so that we can reproduce that once the model is populated with the new details.
That sounds like an idea. Additionally I guess that the metadata stay the same if all pictures are taken with the same camera which usually might be the case. Then the changing is not that much of a problem. (Could be that I'm wrong there thought).
I thought of that, too, but we can assume that only for people who keep pictures well organized, but not for the general case of same dir, lots of different pictures from different sources.
*** Bug 632758 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Regarding Comment 3, a rant on what is "well organized". Ideally, the metadata is what keeps images organized, that is what metadata is for. It is only because so many image apps ignore metadata that us poor users are forced to resort to antiquated methods (folders and filenames) to keep things organized. Shouldn't our tools be doing that for us? Anyway, I agree that keeping the data visible when advancing to the next image is quite desirable. I would like it permanently displayed in a sidebar.
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