SUMMARY When you click the unused space in the thumbnails bar (this happens only if you are in a directory that has not enough images to cover the window width), View mode is left. The thumbnails bar itself also disappears. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Open an image in a directory with only few images. 2. Make the thumbnail bar visible. 3. Click on the unused space in the thumbnail bar (left-click or right-click). OBSERVED RESULT Gwenview switches from View mode to Browse mode. (On right-click, the context menu for the directory is shown in addition.) EXPECTED RESULT Nothing. (On right-click, the context menu for the directory still makes sense.) SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS gwenview 23.08.04 KDE neon 5.27 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.113.0 Qt Version: 5.15.11 Graphics Platform: X11
I would argue that this is not a bug. It has a clear purpose: Giving the user, who uses the limited thumbnail view the more powerful Browse view.
I don’t agree that this is a clear purpose. There is only empty space when there are such few pictures that all of them fit in the thumbnails bar. So what is the point of having a more powerful view? On the opposite, if there are many pictures, and a more powerful view is needed, this feature is broken.
You have a point there.