Re: Slide shows

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:37:23PM -0800, David Meggy wrote:
> Hi
> 
> In the recent upgrades to gnome, the Nautilus browse mode option of view
> as image collection and the slide show is gone.  I see that it has been
> moved to Eye of Gnome, but there isn't an easy way to start a slide
> show.  Currently I have to open Eye of Gnome and through the program
> open multiple files to get a slide show.  It would be a lot easier if I
> could use Nautilus and select all files and open them in one Eye of
> Gnome window, instead of multiple windows.  Nautilus provides 2 options
> when right clicking multiple images.  "Open" and "Open in X windows",
> but either way I get X new windows.

I had the same problem yesterday, and it seems there are two solutions : 

  1) install gthumb, wait a bit, and then right click on the first image, and
  do open with gthumb. 
  => i hear that gthumb may be added to the gnome meta-package, and it may
  make sense to default to it instead of eog.

  2) select all the images you want to see, and do a right click on it. The
  menu currently shows "open in <huge number> windows", but Seb said he may
  look into this, so expect a future update of this, maybe. Don't know if then
  gthumb will also be offered to automatically create a catalog with all the
  selected fotos.

Problem that remains is when you have fotos in subdirectories, and you want to
see various of them in the same collection. This works with a nice * on the
command line, but i don't think nautilus is designed for this kind of things.

Friendly,

Sven Luther