Image viewer applications

[Bastien Nocera]

----- Original Message -----
> On 08/26/2014 10:27 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > A couple of things:
> > - We used shotwell's viewer, not shotwell by default. It's a different mode
> > of
> >    the same binary, but it's not shotwell itself.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Personally, I'd keep it as-is for now, and remove both Shotwell (and its
> > viewer) and eog from
> > the default installation once gnome-photos can be installed by default.
> 
> For whatever it's worth, I'm a very heavy user of this type of
> functionality, and I always replace Shotwell viewer with eog as one of
> the first post-install things to do. Shotwell viewer takes too long to
> load initially and also going from photo to photo in a dir, and it seems
> to be crash prone (or at least, it's freezing or blocking while it loads.)
> 
> The primary use case I have is flipping through directories of sometimes
> hundreds of images/assets trying to find either a specific targeted one
> or just to feel through them to see if an appropriate image is in the
> location (sometimes locally, sometimes on a remote server or mounted NFS
> share, sometimes on external hw - a friend's SDcard or USB hdd at an
> event or my phone via USB.) Photo managers don't work for this use case
> because I'm going thru photos from a shared pool or mounted external
> devices. Wider context is putting together corporate presentations and
> trying to find appropriate images / diagrams for particular slides, or
> putting together brochures / web page designs / blog post reports etc
> and going thru others' photos of events (say FUDcon or GUADEC or
> whatever) to find good content to snag.
> 
> Whether or not shotwell viewer remains the default, I'm perfectly
> comfortable switching it on each install; maybe I'm too power user to be
> helpful here. I just worry that going thru large photosets is more and
> more common and the initial experience of Shotwell viewer's slowness
> gives an overall impression of an unresponsive desktop.

I can understand the use case, and gnome-photos could be the one to allow you
doing that, it's just that it doesn't yet. Given the use case, I would think that
Sushi could also be doing that job[1].

The important thing here is to avoid changing the defaults to change them again
next time around.

This is probably something that needs to be added to the Workstation tasklist, so
we make sure to solve that particular problem well for Fedora 22.

Cheers

[1]: the preview in OSX, on which Sushi is based, will keep the keyboard focus
on the file manager window, so you'd switch to another thing to preview the same
way you'd select the next item if the preview wasn't there.