feature request

[Daniel Barna]

Hi,
I have recently used IrfanView on Windows. It had a quite useful feature,
which would be nice to have in gwenview as well: when copying or moving a file
somewhere, a 10-element choice list of destination directories is presented.
The last-used is selected by default, but any other can be selected by a
single click, and voila, the file is copied/moved there.
I find this very useful, when sorting my pictures. Currently, one has to
navigate up-and-down in the directory structure if subsequent files are not
always copied to the same destination directory.
Thanks
Daniel

[Peter Lewis]

Post by Daniel Barna
Hi,
I have recently used IrfanView on Windows. It had a quite useful feature,
which would be nice to have in gwenview as well: when copying or moving a
file somewhere, a 10-element choice list of destination directories is
presented. The last-used is selected by default, but any other can be
selected by a single click, and voila, the file is copied/moved there.
I find this very useful, when sorting my pictures. Currently, one has to
navigate up-and-down in the directory structure if subsequent files are not
always copied to the same destination directory.
Thanks
Daniel

This can be effected by opening an instance of dolphin on the same desktop.
You can drag and drop into dolphin and use the "Folders" pane to ensure that
the destination is correct.
I find this much easier and more versatile than moving files around inside
gwenview itself.
It helps if you have a good sized display!

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Post by Daniel Barna
Hi,
I have recently used IrfanView on Windows. It had a quite useful feature,
which would be nice to have in gwenview as well: when copying or moving a file
somewhere, a 10-element choice list of destination directories is presented.
The last-used is selected by default, but any other can be selected by a
single click, and voila, the file is copied/moved there.
I find this very useful, when sorting my pictures. Currently, one has to
navigate up-and-down in the directory structure if subsequent files are not
always copied to the same destination directory.

Hi Daniel,

Sorry for the super-late answer :( (two months, that's a new record :/)

I see your point: I am often annoyed by Gwenview opening the copy/move
dialog to some place which is not at all the one I want.

Is this choice list you mention displayed as a submenu?

Aurélien

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Hi,
No problem, I also have pending answers for a much longer time :-)
Arguing with an earlier answer to my email: I DO find it useful to have
the possibility of easily organizing/sorting my pics from gwenview.
After a trip I usually browse them there, crop/color-tune/etc them, and
then sort them out to folders (private, to-be-shown-on-presentations,
not-good-enough-to-be-shown-on-presentations, etc)
One can of course also drag-and-drop them to different folders in a
dolphin window (or several dolphin windows), but that needs several
other windows to be open at the same time, etc.
Weak arguments, but I find it easier this way :-)

Not a weak argument: having to manage multiple windows can be painful,
especially on small screens.

In IrfanView this is a popup window, which pops up when one clicks
'Edit/Copy(or Move) To' (or at the corresponding keyboard shortcut) just
like in gwenview, but instead of the file/directory selection window it
contains a 10-element list of locations, which can each be selected by
the Browse button next to them. (see attached file).
Clicking on the numerical buttons on the bottom, or hitting the
corresponding numerical key on the keyboard copies the file (keeping the
filename) to that directory.

Mmmm, so it is up to the user to fill the predefined locations, right? I
think it would be simpler to just turn the Copy/Move/Link items into
submenus, something like this:

+--------+
|... |+------------+
|*Copy >*|| Copy To... |
| Move > ||------------|
| Link > || Recent 1 |
|... || Recent 2 |
+--------+| Recent 3 |
+------------+

What do you think?

In an even more optimized scheme one could setup shortcut keys for each
position in this list, for example Ctrl+Alt+1 .. Ctrl+Alt+9 meaning
'Copy to 1st .. 9th targetdir of this list'.

That sounds a bit too geeky to me :)

Aurélien

[Daniel Barna]

Post by Aurélien Gâteau
Mmmm, so it is up to the user to fill the predefined locations, right? I

Yes. The last-used directory of this list is selected by default,
hitting Enter in the popup window copies/moves the picture into that
directory.

Post by Aurélien Gâteau
think it would be simpler to just turn the Copy/Move/Link items into
+--------+
|... |+------------+
|*Copy>*|| Copy To... |
| Move> ||------------|
| Link> || Recent 1 |
|... || Recent 2 |
+--------+| Recent 3 |
+------------+

I personally prefer shortcuts, whenever possible, they work much faster,
but that's only one opinion.

[Daniel Barna]

Hi,

No problem, I also have pending answers for a much longer time :-)

Arguing with an earlier answer to my email: I DO find it useful to have
the possibility of easily organizing/sorting my pics from gwenview.
After a trip I usually browse them there, crop/color-tune/etc them, and
then sort them out to folders (private, to-be-shown-on-presentations,
not-good-enough-to-be-shown-on-presentations, etc)
One can of course also drag-and-drop them to different folders in a
dolphin window (or several dolphin windows), but that needs several
other windows to be open at the same time, etc.
Weak arguments, but I find it easier this way :-)

In IrfanView this is a popup window, which pops up when one clicks
'Edit/Copy(or Move) To' (or at the corresponding keyboard shortcut) just
like in gwenview, but instead of the file/directory selection window it
contains a 10-element list of locations, which can each be selected by
the Browse button next to them. (see attached file).
Clicking on the numerical buttons on the bottom, or hitting the
corresponding numerical key on the keyboard copies the file (keeping the
filename) to that directory.
In an even more optimized scheme one could setup shortcut keys for each
position in this list, for example Ctrl+Alt+1 .. Ctrl+Alt+9 meaning
'Copy to 1st .. 9th targetdir of this list'.

Cheers
D

Post by Aurélien Gâteau

Post by Daniel Barna
Hi,
I have recently used IrfanView on Windows. It had a quite useful feature,
which would be nice to have in gwenview as well: when copying or moving a file
somewhere, a 10-element choice list of destination directories is presented.
The last-used is selected by default, but any other can be selected by a
single click, and voila, the file is copied/moved there.
I find this very useful, when sorting my pictures. Currently, one has to
navigate up-and-down in the directory structure if subsequent files are not
always copied to the same destination directory.

Hi Daniel,
Sorry for the super-late answer :( (two months, that's a new record :/)
I see your point: I am often annoyed by Gwenview opening the copy/move
dialog to some place which is not at all the one I want.
Is this choice list you mention displayed as a submenu?
Aurélien
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[Aurélien Gâteau]

[Sorry, your message got held for being too big, just released it]

On 18/05/2011 18:11, Daniel Barna wrote:
[snip]

In IrfanView this is a popup window, which pops up when one clicks
'Edit/Copy(or Move) To' (or at the corresponding keyboard shortcut) just
like in gwenview, but instead of the file/directory selection window it
contains a 10-element list of locations, which can each be selected by
the Browse button next to them. (see attached file).
Clicking on the numerical buttons on the bottom, or hitting the
corresponding numerical key on the keyboard copies the file (keeping the
filename) to that directory.
In an even more optimized scheme one could setup shortcut keys for each
position in this list, for example Ctrl+Alt+1 .. Ctrl+Alt+9 meaning
'Copy to 1st .. 9th targetdir of this list'.

Mmmm, no offense but I find that dialog to be a bit rough... I can see
how it can be efficient though. Will think about it for a while.

Aurélien