Re: EOG features

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Davyd Madeley wrote:

> Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 10:40:08 +0800
> From: Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au>
> To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: EOG features
>
> On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 17:44 -0500, William Lovaton wrote:
>
> > The other interesting feature would be to scan all images in a directory
> > (not load them) and put a "next button" somewhere so that you can view
> > the next picture without closing EOG, changing to nautilus and double
> > clicking the next picture to open it in EOG again.

I had a vague feeling work like this was already underway but that may
only have been wishful thinking on my part.

> You can open an entire directory in EoG. You can then take the logical
> extension of assigning "Open in Image Viewer" as an action on a
> directory. This gives you a handy-dandy pane at the bottom for moving
> through your images.

I think the point was although you can do this you shouldn't even need to.
Not only the collection view, but also the single image view should try
and preload the next image.  (I think the Image Viewer in Windows XP does
this but I've only used it briefly.)

- Alan H.