GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 668178
Don’t show sidebar by default, or at least remember setting
Last modified: 2012-02-06 01:24:22 UTC
I like my eog clean. Just the image, no toolbar, no status bar, no sidebar, no gallery. The sidebar always opens now.
There was an unwanted update of the preferences key once the sidebar's visibility changed. commit 6b28ca6b46fda34855d89564e5097324947ac1b9 Author: Felix Riemann <friemann@gnome.org> Date: Wed Jan 18 16:07:19 2012 +0100 Don't force-enable the sidebar on startup once a page is added https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668178 --- This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
Thanks, Felix. The sidebar could also be hig-ified. And it's weird that there's still a dialog with properties and now a sidebar with properties. Wasn't the properties dialog introduced because you didn't want a sidebar? i.e., there was a sidebar before, then none, now it's back
The re-instated sidebar that is in the current 3.3.x releases definitely needs improvement. It actually is a work in progress item I already added to the releases to possibly cause some feedback (considering my rather slow development speed lately). It came back as it was one of the more often heard requests. Theoretically it also improves the connection of the metadata to the image (which was not that obvious with the dialog. The biggest problem with the old sidebar was that it was way to cluttered due to the excessive amounts of data displayed. The new sidebar has similar problems though. See also bug 616438. The dialog is still in as it has other advantages compared to the sidebar, e.g. it allows to move the metadata to a second monitor while viewing the image on another display.
*** Bug 669037 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Still opens every image with side bar. eog: Installed: 3.3.4-0ubuntu2 Candidate: 3.3.4-0ubuntu2 Version table: *** 3.3.4-0ubuntu2 0
False alarm, Ubuntu "fixed" this as follows, they didn’t get the proper fix from git: $ head changelog eog (3.3.4-0ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low * debian/eog.gsettings-override: - don't display the sidebar by default (lp: #923708) -- Sebastien Bacher <seb128@ubuntu.com> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:57:46 +0100 eog (3.3.4-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low * New upstream version $ cat eog.gsettings-override [org.gnome.eog.ui] external-editor="shotwell-viewer.desktop" sidebar=false