Bug 219198

Summary:	Support for second screen
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	Timmorn <wo.granon>
Component:	Plugin-Generic-SlideShow	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles, Julien
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	2.5.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Timmorn 2009-12-18 16:13:04 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.4)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

In the moment my second screen is useless with digikam. It would be a great improvement, if it would be possible to use a second screen.

I could imaging the following simple solution: There is an option in the preferences where i can set that the picture view opens in a _new_ window. This i can place on the second screen and on the first screen i have the thumbnails.

Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2009-12-18 17:57:10 UTC

Definitively... no. To support more than one screen, this is delegate to windows manager, not digiKam...

Please move this entry to the right place on bugzilla...

Gilles Caulier

Comment 2 Timmorn 2009-12-18 18:08:36 UTC

?? No, this has nothing to do with window manager... It supports allready more than one screen. It is only a thing of digicam to support working with two windows. Digicam has nothing to do with the second screen, because if it supports a second window for picture view i can drag it to the second screen which is supported by my window manager.

So perhaps i have to give an other title if someone gets confused because i talked about screens: "Support for second window"

Comment 3 Julien Narboux 2009-12-18 19:15:36 UTC

Yes that would nice to be able to "detach" the preview from main digikam window for people with several screens.

Julien

Comment 4 Julien Narboux 2010-01-17 10:51:36 UTC

Okular as support for choosing in which screen presentations should be displayed.
Maybe code could be reused.

Julien

Comment 5 Timmorn 2010-01-17 14:23:41 UTC

I think there is no need to choose a screen... to open the images in a second window is enough. You can drag the window then on the screen you want it to stay. 

But i found now that there is a workaround for this issue. For me this is enough:

In the settings it is possible to set: "Action when choosing a picture preview" - "Open picture editor" (perhaps it is named a little different, i only translated from german). The picture editor opens in a second screen and you can also go through the pictures when you opened the preview this way.

Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2011-12-13 13:40:12 UTC

Timmorn,

This entry still valid for you with digiKam 2.x serie. I use digiKam on dual screen without any problem here...

Gilles Caulier

Comment 7 Timmorn 2011-12-13 13:45:28 UTC

Hi Gilles Caulier,

like I wrote in #5, it was already solved for me with the option "Action when choosing a picture preview".

Thanks