Am I the only one who uses 2.10 and has the thumbnails on the left in two or three columns, with a single click opening the image on the right?

I was a bit surprised when my home Ubuntu upgraded to 2.11 and the main reason I chose gthumb in the first place was gone (besides not crashing all the time, hogging resources or forcing a particular workflow down my throat).

Is there any hope of getting this layout back in 2.11 or later? I find it very useful for quickly comparing between different photos without having to move the mouse around hunting for icons or having to swap between keyboard and mouse.