https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469179
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--- Comment #1 from Holger <private_l...@yahoo.com> ---
My usecases:
1. When looking at similar photos (e.g. a series of 10 pics shot in short time
of a group and trying to identify the best to keep with the least amount of
closed eyes / open mouths ...) I open my "current favorite" in a new gwenview
instance, while I jump back and forth through the remaining 9 pictures. Yes,
gwenview has a "side-by-side comparison" for multi-selection, but it cannot
navigate the second picture view independently. Moreover I find it easier, to
make the computer toggle the image in the same place, instead of me flipping my
eyes like in those news-paper-riddles, where you shall find the differences
between two photos. Alt+Tab gives me this easily when pressed quick enough to
not trigger the animation. Also I know, gwenview can in full screen navigate
back and forth through the pictures (one at a time). But it is bound by an
order - so to toggle back and forth between the 2nd and 8th picture in the set,
I need to symlink them in a temp-folder, which is just too cumbersome.
2. Going through my collection with e.g. the task: symlink all nice pictures of
my mother to folder xyz, so I can later present them to her for choosing the
one to put on the birthday invitations, I get distracted by "Who's sitting next
to her? - Maybe I can find this shirt again on my dads camera ...". For this
temporary "side-quest" I open a second gwenview instance to not loose the
position on my earlier quest, because I don't want to again flic through the
300+ pictures I already sifted through.
3. Reading a comic strip as a sequence of pictures, you might want to refresh
your memory, when there is a back-reference or even, how the character looked
like when he showed up last - was he already in the previous installment
wearing this long cape? Now, how to keep the current position and at the same
time jump around to find the other occurrence for comparison?
To summarize the similarity of those use-cases: The current selection in
gwenview is on the one hand very fleeting and easily destroyed information - by
just selecting something else. On the other hand, especially in large folders
with many pictures, it can be a valuable marker e.g. of progress or a
"bookmark" to jump (back) to. While I usually finish with it in a matter of a
few minutes, it is not worth the hassle of e.g. taking a note of the filename
or symlinking the picture on the Desktop to return to the task tomorrow. So
opening a second or third instance of gwenview suits my workflow perfectly.
It's actually quite comparable to browsing on the internet, only that I use
full gwenview windows instead of browser tabs to mark certain positions in the
picture collection, in time and in progress of a supposed "reading list". Now
imagine the outcry, if Firefox removed the "open in new tab" command?
But before someone over-engineers this into a fancy new "annotated
image-history", there is not only the image itself to be preserved. In the
second example notice the current task comprises also symlinking found pictures
to folder xyz - so you bet, the folder view is open and not the image
information and it is scrolled and unfolded appropriately to show xyz as a
prominent drop-target. Navigating other folders surely will unfold more
"clutter" and shunt xyz out of the way and returning to a bookmarked picture
will likely not restore the folder-tree. All this I get for free by opening a
second instance.
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