[haiku-development] Re: ShowImage patch

Gabriele Biffi <mlist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 ...
> Also <left> or <up> for previous image, and 
> <down> or <right> for next image.
> It sounds natural to most people, especially if
> there is a thumbnails list on one side.
> And the thumbnails list should be hideable,
> scrollable, etc :-)

+1 

I think that would be more user friendly default 
behaviour - not having the application explode a
lot of windows in your face if you happen to open
too many images. (say, Alt-A, Alt-O.) Unless you
explicitly ask for it.

Having a shortcut to open all the loaded images 
(the thumbnails in the sidebar) as separate windows
could possibly make the change also acceptable to
fans of the current behaviour.

If Haiku's ShowImage "cascades around", this might
group mode default might lessen it somewhat.

(About cascading around.. Saving on-screen location
that might be irrelevant the next time the app or 
document is opened, is at least a lesser evil than
not remembering location at all. E.g. hardcoding (20,20))

BTW, this two-step behaviour
1. load in group mode
2. offer option to open multiple windows
is also how I would like to change Tracker's info window. 

Alt-I for a summary view of the selection, and then
Alt-something, maybe Alt-I again, in the summary window
to break it down to individual info screens.
(like Windows, unlike MacOS X)

/Jonas.

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