Re: [gthumb-list] Preview issues: Zooming of thumbnails and Sort order.

[Hugo Heden <hugoheden gmail com>]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it> wrote:

Hugo Heden ha scritto:

Good day all,

I've recently started using the latest gthumb release, 2.11.1, and it works
very well. I have the following questions:

In preview mode(? -- the mode where you see thumbnail versions of several
files), I have some difficulty seeing the pictures, because they are a bit
too small. How about adding zooming functionality, for example with keyboard
short cuts Ctrl-+ (for zooming in), Ctrl-- (for zooming out) and Ctrl-0 (for
restoring to default zoom)? This is what Nautilus does on my system (Ubuntu
9.10) (and also similar to how Firefox does zooming).
 

you can change the thumbnail size in the preferences dialog

Thanks, I should have looked there!
 
May I still suggest adding keyboard short cuts Ctrl-+ (Ctrl+'plus', for increasing thumbnail size), Ctrl-- (Ctrl+'minus' for decreasing thumbnail size) and Ctrl-0 (Ctrl+'zero' for restoring to default thumbnail size)?

In preview mode, the default sort order (as specified using View-->Sort
By...) is /file modified date/. This seems reasonable, but I was surprised
when I performed a Rotate Right on an image, and the image suddenly moved to
the last place in the list (because it had now become the most recently
modified file I guess). Would it be more reasonable to instead use /date
photo was taken/ as default sort order?
 

sorting by the date the photo was taken is not the default because is slow and not all the images have that information available.

Ah, thanks. Perhaps instead gthumb could preserve the original time stamp when modifying the file, so that the sort order of the images does change? Hmm, that sounds like it could be a bad idea though.. I guess people would be confused if the time stamp does not change when they modify an image.. Perhaps the feature "Preserve original timestamp" could be a configurable option (under Preferences->Saving->JPEG)?


Best regards

Hugo Heden