On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)fedoraproject.org> 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.