Re: Proposed patch for slideshow keyboard controls

["Alexandre Prokoudine" <alexandre prokoudine gmail com>]

On 3/29/06, Warren Baird wrote:

>  That was what I originally tried - and I found it looked strange and felt
> more jarring to be pulled back to the previous image then pushed forward to
> the next image...    I found a few times where I wanted to look at the
> current image, but didn't realize that the transition was still going on, so
> I hit space, and suddenly was looking at the previous picture...
>
>  Hmm.   Maybe I can find out where we are in the transition --- if we're in
> the first half of the transition, go back to the previous picture,
> otherwise, go to the next picture?
>
>  Although probably the right thing to do is to spend the time to figure out
> how the 3 timers all interact and see if we can properly pause in the middle
> of the transition...

Well, I actually intended to suggest changing behavior in current
patch that I treat as as temporary solution only. I just didn't
express it well enough. Of course, freezing transition would be a
better and really anticipated solution ;)

Alexandre