Bug 321209

Summary: [wish] Thumbnail view in 'compact mode'
Product: [Applications] gwenview Reporter: David REVOY <info>
Component: generalAssignee: Gwenview Bugs <gwenview-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: myriam, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 4.10.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description David REVOY 2013-06-16 06:01:37 UTC
Hi, this is a feature request to suggest a 'compact mode' for the thumbnails view.

Because the room around thumbnails ( http://i.imgur.com/c8xwCr1.jpg ) could be used to display a larger collection of images, and offer an advantage over simply browse image in Dolphin ( ex : this could lead me to use Gwenview more to manage my pics, this also would depend of *.kra and *.ora image support ; bug 290528 ).

Compacted thumbnails gallery for reference : a google image search ( http://i.imgur.com/SLIgc1Q.jpg ).
Thanks in advance !
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2017-09-09 21:10:54 UTC
Seems like you can get this by turning down the size. There's a size slider in the bottom-right corner of the window in your screenshot that you can use to get more images to show up in the thumbnail view.
Comment 2 David REVOY 2017-09-10 01:31:30 UTC
No thank you, this wish is specific to compact view for large thumbnail: I know I can see more thumbnails by reducing the size with the slider, but I would like to keep large thumbnails preview and not loosing all this empty space around them.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2017-09-10 03:06:12 UTC
So you you want zero clearance between the photos? Can you clarify what it is you want, or maybe attach a mockup or annotated screenshot?
Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2017-09-20 11:09:37 UTC
This is present in many KDE applications (at least Dolphin, Gwenview, and Digikam). They use a grid instead of a flow layout.

But this is especially bad with Gwenview because the grid is not square, causing a bigger empty space with portrait images. Digikam uses a square grid.

Nate, an image of the expected result is in comment #0.