On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 have not seen the hanging part but regarding the "image viewing workflow" .. its exactly the same that I do. Go with nautlius into the folder ... open with eog and navigate with the arrow keys. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
