Re: gthumb 2.12 a pain

[Robert Moskowitz <rgm htt-consult com>]

Thank you for your reply.

On 01/28/2011 01:16 PM, Michael Chudobiak wrote:
> Robert Moskowitz<rgm<at>  htt-consult.com>  writes:
> > On my Fedora 12 systems I used gthumb 2.10.12 a lot.  Now on Fedora 14 I
> > have 2.12.1
> >
> > I don't like the change in the directory tree.  It is harder to go up
> > and down a tree to see images.
> Quite a few people asked for a tree view, including myself. I find it
> much easier to navigate a tree than with the old-style combobox. That
> won't be changing.

More keystrokes to get down a tree. I am basically lazy.

> > I don't like the changes in the thumbprint viewer.  Too much
> > information, and thus fewer thumbprints in the window.
> What do you mean? The browser view? Edit>  Preferences>  Browser gives
> you control of what is shown in the captions and the thumbnail size, so
> you can strip it down as much as you want.

Finally figured it out. I was getting info as well as file name...

> > Moving images between directories does not seem to work now.  It is only
> > a copy function.  So you drag the image to the new directory. Switch
> > over to make sure it made it.  Switch back and delete it.  Truly a pain.
> Drag does a copy, shift+drag does a move. That might work better for you.

shift+drag does nothing. Nor does control+drag or shift+control+drag. 
Only drag works as a copy.

And when I select an image, I get a properties box that eats up half the 
tree space and I have not figured out how to shut that off, as it eats 
into showing which directory to drag to!

> The old copy/move dialog has been added back into git master, however.
> Look for it in whatever comes after the 2.12 series.

That probably means F15 next fall....


Oh, some other things gone:

Picture editing! No more rotate or croping for example. Now it is 
strictly a viewer. But then other viewers at least support rotating. :(