New view "Pictures"

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According to exo-icon-view, it should be possible to get rid of the filenames via the properties text-column and markup-column:

/**
   * ExoIconView:text-column:
   *
   * The text-column property contains the number of the model column
   * containing the texts which are displayed. The text column must be
   * of type #G_TYPE_STRING. If this property and the markup-column
   * property are both set to -1, no texts are displayed.
   **/

Though on a quick try, I just got a segfault. Possibly the complete name column needs to be removed, and the name_renderer needs to be disabled ... to be further investigated.

Anyhow, since the exo-icon-view is grid-based, it probably is required to add a new exo-picture-view (or similar) in order to display stuff in rows and an according thunar pedant in order to scale thumbnails, so they fit into these rows.

Edit: Since there is effort to rather get rid of exo, it most likely should be rather a thunar-pictures-view, instead of an exo-picture-view.

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mentioned in issue #735 (closed)

assigned to @hi-im-buggy

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After some experimentation, I was able to get a 'Gallery View'-like feature, which is just a clone of the 'Icon View', but with filenames disabled: https://gitlab.xfce.org/hi-im-buggy/thunar/-/tree/gallery-view.

By changing the icon_factory for the icon_renderer of the view, it should be possible to change the thumbnails to all be square, presenting a gallery view with square tiles, similar to how Instagram does it, for example. Hovering for the name can also probably be added by moving the icon and the name renderer into an overlay.

However, I'm not making an MR for the above branch immediately, for a couple reasons. Firstly, a square grid gallery is fairly different from the UI reference given. In addition, it would double down on the dependency on exo. I'm looking into a new view from scratch to work on the GtkListModel, which will probably be very complex.

Firstly, a square grid gallery is fairly different from the UI reference give

True, though as long as it looks good, and serves the purpose, I would be fine with it. Just tried your branch .. getting rid of the names is already a good start. Now the pictures would need to get zoomed to fill the full square

it would double down on the dependency on exo.

Not perfect, though as long as we anyhow use exo, it's not a big deal (Possibly we will have it for another 10 years .. who knows)

I'm looking into a new view from scratch to work on the GtkListModel, which will probably be very complex.

Alright .. yea, I suppose a new view from scratch will be a rather big fish to fry.

Squaring out the thumbnails gives pretty decent results!

This is by making the necessary changes in thunar-icon-renderer.c, though it's for all icon renderers right now. For the gallery view, I will probably have to override the render function with a separate one and get it to work only for Gallery. I will make an MR once that's done :)

mentioned in merge request !303

mentioned in issue #1006 (closed)

mentioned in issue #1143 (closed)

Note: As much as I like rounded corners, packing rectangles in rounded boxes require margins and the more rounded the corners, the bigger the margins.

I think the roundness of selected files should be turned down a notch to get back some screen real estate.

Here's the current state, where vertical margins at the top and bottom account for the round corners :

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