Bug 305011

Summary: Open in new instance
Product: [Applications] gwenview Reporter: michael.zugaro
Component: generalAssignee: Gwenview Bugs <gwenview-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: kde_bugzilla_2, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 2.8.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description michael.zugaro 2012-08-12 10:02:40 UTC
Gwenview could benefit from the capability to display images using a highly simplified multidocument interface, a la Kuickshow.

1) Only the image would be displayed, hiding all menus, toolbars, status bar, side bar, etc: just the image and window title (and border). The window would have exactly the image size, there would be no empty window background.

2) Several images could be opened simultaneously, in different windows.

This is very convenient to very quickly and efficiently browse numerous images, using all screen space to display images, comparing different versions, etc.

One very simple way to achieve this would be to add the following features:

1) Hide all controls: currently, the menus and side bar can be hidden, but not the toolbars and status bar.

2) Shortcut to start a second instance of Gwenview displaying current image: this can almost be done using Open with->Gwenview, except that one cannot assign a shortcut to this action, so it cannot be done quickly and repeatedly.

3) Automatically resize window to image size.


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2017-11-08 21:51:04 UTC
*** Bug 131832 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2017-11-08 21:51:47 UTC
For what it's worth, you can indeed hide the toolbar; it's a standard toolbar. Just right-click on it.