poppeman
commented
8 years ago A gallery mode is something I've been wanting to implement, but is probably quite far into the future. My initial plan was to let windows explorer function as the gallery (which is partially why I added the thumbnail feature), but having some sort of gallery feature directly in Pictus would be nice.
A really cool enhancement would be to have a quick Key / Mouse Button (configurable) to instantly switch between "View Mode" and "Thumbnails Mode" of all the pics inside the current folder.
Let's say we bind Mouse Button 4 to that action. When clicking "Mouse B4" (or other custom assigned Mouse Button / Keyboard Key) the picture will be "swapped" with thumbnails of all the pictures in the working Folder, like an in built browser always set to display Thumbnails. Clicking "Mouse B4" again will simply toggle / return back to the picture we were viewing, while double clicking a thumbnail will return to "View Mode" displaying the double-clicked picture. Hitting "Esc" Key while in "Thumbnails Mode" will also return to the viewed picture. In "Thumbnail Mode" the usual select, copy, delete, hide actions could also be available with modifier Keys (Ctrl, Shift... ) also playing their role in order to multi select, permanent delete, etc. To stretch things further, the "Thumbnails Mode" could also have a Menu/Navigation Bar with the usual Up, Back, Forward and maybe other commands.
Here's some mockups:
