Re: Comments on fullscreen dialog

["Thomas Van Machelen" <thomas vanmachelen gmail com>]

Hi Warren,

2007/4/5, Warren Baird <photogeekmtl gmail com>:
> Hi all,
>
> With Stephene's help, I've managed to get the most recent svn build
> working with my existing photo db.
>
> So far my impressions of the changes over the last few months are
> positive, except for the dialog that shows up in fullscreen mode when
> you press a key or move the mouse.
>
> I have basically 2 main use cases for full-screen mode:
>     1: showing photos to people.   I rarely use slideshow mode for this,
> because there's no pause, forward or back controls.
>
>     2: reviewing photos - here I regularly use the forward and next keys
> to move between photos, and quite often press '1' and scroll around in
> full resolution mode to see how sharp the picture is.
>
> In both of these modes, the current dialog is far more annoying than
> useful   It's near the bottom 1/3 line of the photo, where a lot of
> people say you should put the interesting things in your photo, and it's
>   big, quite a bit larger vertically than it needs to be.

You're not the first one to comment on the new fullscreen overlay
position; there already is a simple patch that relieves some of your
grieves; feel free to check it out:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400106

Regards,
Thomas