Some suggestions for Xnview MP x64 on Windows 7

[JanR]

Hello,

i have been a power user of Xnview for several years now. I use it to sift through, sort and delete thousands of pictures every day.

I made the switch to the MP version 0.61 a few days ago. Here are some suggestions, may be a specific problem on Windows 7, i don't know..
Sorry if all of this has been brought up before:


- When i view an image in the viewer and then double click on it to go back to the thumbnail view, the image should be closed like it was in Xnview. Having to press escape or having the last picture open all the time is just... inconvenient.

- When i click on a folder in the folder tree to the left it often marks this folder to rename it, this is extremely annoying. If i click on a folder icon once, it should be selected, nothing else.

- Xnview had an option to create a new folder by pressing F7, why has this feature been removed? When right clicking on a folder and selecting "add a new folder" it often adds 2 or 3 folders at once, the ability to instantly rename the folder seems to be broken, too. It just creates a "new folder" and deselects it.

- When moving pictures to other folders XNview had a button to create a new folder. This is an essential feature. Having to type the name of the new folder into the tree, then confirming it in a new popup box is annoying and inconvenient.

- Folders can not be deleted by pressing the del button on the keyboard. Why?

- When i switch from one folder of images that are not in the database, yet to the next folder with new pictures, XNview MP often totally stops loading thumbnails after the first is displayed. I have to press F5 for the process of analyzing pictures to continue.

- The biggest problem of all: When i select pictures and then drag-n-drop them into other (sub)folders via the folder tree on the left, they are copied, not moved. This does not feel like Windows, at all. There seems to be an option to move the images by pressing shift+mouse 1 but it often only moves 1 out of 10 pictures and the others remain in the source folder..

Thanks for looking into it.

[m.Th.]

- The biggest problem of all: When i select pictures and then drag-n-drop them into other (sub)folders via the folder tree on the left, they are copied, not moved. This does not feel like Windows, at all. There seems to be an option to move the images by pressing shift+mouse 1 but it often only moves 1 out of 10 pictures and the others remain in the source folder..

Qt. It is Qt.

Also, it depends WHEN you press the Shift key. Do like this: Select your 10 pictures. Drag over the target folder. Just before you'll drop the files, press Shift. I know, it doesn't follow the Windows convention, which IMHO it is better. But for this Pierre should write a function to detect if the source and the target are on the same drive (easy on Windows, scary on *nixes - perhaps we just have it for Win?) and overcome the drag & drop engine of Qt's tree widget which istm isn't so easy to do.

I thinking now that one of the easiest solutions now is to make 'Move' as default drop action and not 'Copy'.

(but also here AFAIK, there is a bug in Qt 4's tree widget which forces 'Copy' as default action - I hope that in Qt 5 the things will be better).

- When i click on a folder in the folder tree to the left it often marks this folder to rename it, this is extremely annoying. If i click on a folder icon once, it should be selected, nothing else.

Yep. If the folder is deselected, clicking on it selects it. If the folder is selected, clicking on it enters in edit state.

- Xnview had an option to create a new folder by pressing F7, why has this feature been removed?

??? It works for me. Just that it doesn't pops up a dialog - just adds a new folder and it enters automatically in the edit state.

When right clicking on a folder and selecting "add a new folder" it often adds 2 or 3 folders at once, the ability to instantly rename the folder seems to be broken, too. It just creates a "new folder" and deselects it.

...hmmmm... ...I think that you're faster than your box.

Perhaps that your HDD / CPU is overloaded with tasks / write queues? On my OS everything works ok. Try to wait a little.

- When moving pictures to other folders XNview had a button to create a new folder. This is an essential feature. Having to type the name of the new folder into the tree, then confirming it in a new popup box is annoying and inconvenient.

You can write the folder name directly in the drop down edit box with the paths. If the folder doesn't exists it creates it (if you provide a relative path it takes the current source folder as root). This, combined with the Favorites button and with the History of the destinations it is much faster than having a 'Create New Folder' button. Just count the Clicks, keys pressed and mouse movements. However, yes, there are circumstances when 'Create New Folder' as a subfolder of the selected folder makes sense.

- Folders can not be deleted by pressing the del button on the keyboard. Why?

It works in the thumbs pane.

On folders tree? Yes, Pierre left in the middle the work on the on-disk file management. See http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=28297 for other items. Add this too. It will remain 'unnoticed' here.

- When i switch from one folder of images that are not in the database, yet to the next folder with new pictures, XNview MP often totally stops loading thumbnails after the first is displayed. I have to press F5 for the process of analyzing pictures to continue.

Cannot reproduce.