Gthumb [LWN.net]

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Posted Jun 17, 2010 17:08 UTC (Thu) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803) [Link]

I've used GThumb on Fedora 13. No problem here.

I am also a fan of its simplistic approach, not wanting to "import" anything. And for viewing it's hands down the best I've seen -- keyboard shortcuts that make sense (all the others seem to botch that somehow).

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Posted Jun 22, 2010 10:58 UTC (Tue) by Yenya (subscriber, #52846) [Link]

The F13 version of gthumb has severe problems:

- no view with "thumbnails on the right" anymore (on widescreen monitor with 3:2 aspect ratio of photos it really hurts)

- "ask before deleting" does not work for me (it still deletes unconditionally, and in Preferences it is unchecked even though I have enabled it before.

- photos are displayed 1:1, i.e. not fitted to the screen size. The "fit to screen size" is reset when I advance to the next image. And it still does not work when the thumbnails are displayed - the "screen size" is computed with the thumbnails area included, so I have to scroll even in the "fit to screen size" mode.

It is a huge step back for me and I am looking for a replacement for gthumb.

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Posted Jun 22, 2010 11:59 UTC (Tue) by avtechmjc (subscriber, #50477) [Link]

Why would you take the time to complain about these bugs on LWN, but not file bug reports at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gthumb ?

The "ask before deleting" bug is real, but has not been reported, for example.

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Posted Jun 22, 2010 12:14 UTC (Tue) by avtechmjc (subscriber, #50477) [Link]

And I have reported that issue as:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622386

I don't see any problems with screen zooming, however. What do you have set at Edit > Preferences > Viewer > After loading an image?

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Posted Jun 22, 2010 15:32 UTC (Tue) by Yenya (subscriber, #52846) [Link]

Well, I have been thinking about eventually reporting those as bugs, but I am less than enthusiastic when it comes to reporting usability bugs, especially after putting an effort to reporting or at least following several GDM > 2.20 usability bugs like the following ones:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433649
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451562
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=444213

which are either mostly ignored by GDM developers, or are closed as WONTFIX or DEFERRED. I think when it comes to usability reports, it is clearly a decision of the development team to make the application look like they want.

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Posted Jun 22, 2010 15:57 UTC (Tue) by avtechmjc (subscriber, #50477) [Link]

I filed your deletion bug for you (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622386), and it was fixed within the hour:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gthumb/commit/?id=8cbde58ed70...

Please do file gThumb bugs (in the upstream bugzilla, not the redhat one). The 2.11.x series is in active development, and feedback is both helpful and necessary.

- Mike

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Posted Jun 22, 2010 16:03 UTC (Tue) by Yenya (subscriber, #52846) [Link]

Thanks!

I will look into gthumb usability issues after I manage to upgrade my primary workstation to F13 (some time next week). It seems that gthumb developers provide better reaction time and attitude than gdm ones :-)

-Yenya

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Posted Jun 22, 2010 16:41 UTC (Tue) by avtechmjc (subscriber, #50477) [Link]

gThumb 2.11.x (which is a total rewrite compared to 2.10.x) is now pretty much feature-complete in git master, and a 2.11.4 release should happen "soon".

Fixing bugs and enhancing usability are the current priorities:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gthumb-list/2010-June/msg0...

- Mike

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Posted Jun 22, 2010 12:54 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Add to the list: the "resize" operation defaults to a percentage - every time. Which is silly: who doesn't want to resize to a specific size? Gthumb usability has definitely dropped, even before it stopped working altogether.