Christian Karl

That is an interesting point, instead of having a setting (or maybe at some point in addition to the setting), one could have a flag that forces loading. Would probably...

In case you are feeling feisty, you could give the `extend-open-selected` branch a quick go. In my keys.conf I added the bindings: ``` [IMAGE] h: enter library [LIBRARY] h: scroll...

Wow, thanks a bunch for the PR and all the work that went into this! Would you mind splitting this into four distinct PRs for discussion purposes, as I do...

Thanks for your explanations! 1. Makes sense, happy to merge the option then, but should definitely be `false` at default (as you nicely did). In any case I would still...

While I agree that the option to reset the sorting would be more consistent, I would definitely argue that the added complexity is not worth it. Yet another option could...

Perfect, sounds good to me :+1: I am also totally fine with naming it `none` then. Definitely worth keeping an eye on the memory issue, especially if this is an...

I agree the points @jcjgraf made are useful, I see two points here: - Independent of any changes: generate "visible" thumbnails first, instead of starting at the front. Would not...

Well, yes and no, depends on how far we want to go. Think of the following process: 1. `vimiv *.jpg` or whatever opens **a lot** of images 2. Thumbnails are...

Definitely extra PR material, agreed :smile: @jcjgraf could you clarify: I expect the extraction takes long, i.e. the generation of the initial `QPixmap`, loading or writing to disk really is...

Thanks for clarifying, I think the current #665 actually fixes a large part of your problem, as the thumbnails are created from the current position, and any not yet running...