Bug 458105

Summary: Add an option to not jump to the newly saved image (which may be in a different folder)
Product: [Applications] gwenview Reporter: Christian (Fuchs) <kde>
Component: generalAssignee: Gwenview Bugs <gwenview-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: ashark, nate
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version First Reported In: 22.08.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Christian (Fuchs) 2022-08-20 15:00:31 UTC
As per the discussion in the visual design group: 

I tried to sort through and crop some photos that I took yesterday, and I think the UX for this usecase is pretty bad. 

If you go through pictures in a folder (e.g. ~/photos/2022-08-20/) Every time you change (e.g. crop) and image and save it, gwenview jumps to that saved image. So if you save it in a different folder (e.g. ~/photos/sorted) you then end up in this folder instead, and you can no longer go through the list of photos you want. There is a message appearing at the top once saved that allows you to jump back to the original, but that message appears with a delay (once saved), so even if you do see that and click that button (which requires switching from keyboard to mouse) you get taken back to that picture, and not whatever picture you were looking at since you continued flicking after hitting save. 

Suggestion: add an option to invert that behaviour, as in: do _not_ jump to the newly saved image, but rather stay at the original and offer a button to optionally do the inverse. 

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Sort and crop through a large folder of images
2. Edit some of them
3. Save the edited ones in a different folder

OBSERVED RESULT
Gwenview jumps to the other folder, breaking your current workflow and position of going through the current folder

EXPECTED RESULT
Gwenview is able to not interrupt your workflow, but rather only jump to the saved image folder by request

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
All of them
Comment 1 A Linux User 2025-08-25 08:23:18 UTC
Thank you for the bug report. Unfortunately we were not able to get to it yet. Can we ask you to please check if this is still an issue with Gwenview 25.08.0?
Comment 2 Christian (Fuchs) 2025-08-25 09:43:06 UTC
(In reply to A Linux User from comment #1)
> Thank you for the bug report. Unfortunately we were not able to get to it
> yet. Can we ask you to please check if this is still an issue with Gwenview
> 25.08.0?

yes.

There is a small popover now which temporarily allows you to jump back, which makes the issue a bit less prominent, but it's imho not ideal yet.