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Right and Left arrows on the side of the program

Open timea-techgirl opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

It would be great if there were arrow buttons to navigate between pictures with the mouse click. I have to use keyboard arrows each time now.

timea-techgirl avatar Mar 07 '21 19:03 timea-techgirl

I think the beauty of the program is in its simplicity and lack of overlay UI. Though I agree that maybe mouse-based navigation would be useful, I think the arrows ought to be invisible (or have an option to hide them in the settings).

Other options for mouse navigation include swiping left and right to change images, double-clicking on the edges of the window (or single clicking, like with the invisible arrows) and touchpad gestures for sidesways scrolling (with two or three fingers swipe), which could also be implemented for touchscreen devices.

BloodRaven0 avatar May 01 '21 06:05 BloodRaven0

Yea, options are always useful so that people who dislike a feature can disable them and those who like can enable them. I am used to windows photo viewer since the days of windows 7, and most people would be.. So I'm used to mouse navigation. I can't do without it. Recently someone used my PC and got annoyed because there were no arrows in my default photo viewer which is qview.

timea-techgirl avatar May 01 '21 15:05 timea-techgirl

Same here. Using qView on a tablet PC without keyboard is a pain. I suggest making those arrows only appear when you move mouse to the side of the screen (like in "Microsoft Photos" app).

RikuKH3 avatar Aug 28 '21 13:08 RikuKH3

Maybe one day, but this isn't exactly something I had in my original vision for the UI. I do agree that it would be useful to have some sort of mouse based control, though. If it's any consolation, one can use the page back and forward buttons if one has a mouse that has these buttons.

jurplel avatar Dec 12 '21 03:12 jurplel

As I am now trying to clean out the issues, and since I don't plan to ever implement this, I will now close the issue. Thank you for your suggestion.

jurplel avatar May 01 '23 19:05 jurplel

Moved on from this program long ago

timea-techgirl avatar May 02 '23 16:05 timea-techgirl

Fair enough, hope you found what you were looking for I guess.

jurplel avatar May 02 '23 22:05 jurplel