<h2>Filters</h2>
- <p><b>Show entries that begin with a dot</b>: Enables the display of hidden files and folders, also known as dot files.</p>
-
- <p><b>Case sensitive sort</b>: Files and folders are sorted such that upper case letters occur before lower case letters.</p>
+ <dl class="dialog_desc">
+ <dt>Show entries that begin with a dot</dt>
+ <dd><p>Enables the display of hidden files and folders, also known as dot files.</p></dd>
+ <dt>Case sensitive sort</dt>
+ <dd><p>Files and folders are sorted such that upper case letters occur before lower case letters.</p>
<p>Enabled result: A, B, C, a, b, c<br />
Disabled result: A, a, B, b, C, c</p>
+ </dd>
- <p><b>Disable file filtering</b>: Enable this to allow Geeqie to list all files, even those that do not contain images.</p>
+ <dt>Disable file filtering</dt>
+ <dd><p>Enable this to allow Geeqie to list all files, even those that do not contain images.</p></dd>
+ </dl>
+
<p><br />
<br />
</p>
<p class="note">Note: Unlike all other options in the dialog, filter list changes are applied immediately.</p>
- <p><b>Add</b> button: Adds a new blank line to the filter list, change the parameters to match the desired file type.</p>
+ <dl class="dialog_desc">
+
+ <dt>Add button</dt>
+ <dd><p>Adds a new blank line to the filter list, change the parameters to match the desired file type.</p></dd>
+
+ <dt>Remove button</dt>
+ <dd><p>Removes the selected line from the filter list.</p></dd>
- <p><b>Remove</b> button: Removes the selected line from the filter list.</p>
+ <dt>Defaults button</dt>
+ <dd><p>Resets the filter list to the default values, discarding any customizations made by the user.</p></dd>
- <p><b>Defaults</b> button: Resets the filter list to the default values, discarding any customizations made by the user.</p>
+ </dl>
<p><br />
<br />
<h2>Startup</h2>
- <p><b>Change to folder</b>: Enabling this will cause Geeqie to initially open to the specified folder.</p>
+ <dl class="dialog_desc">
+ <dt>Change to folder</dt>
+ <dd><p>Enabling this will cause Geeqie to initially open to the specified folder.</p></dd>
+
+ <dt>Use Current</dt>
+ <dd><p>Activate this button to change the setting to the current folder.</p></dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ <h2>Thumbnails</h2>
- <p><b>Use Current</b>: Activate this button to change the setting to the current folder.</p>
+ <dl class="dialog_desc">
+ <dt>Size</dt>
+ <dd><p>Selects the size of the thumbnails displayed throughout Geeqie, dimensions are width by height in pixels.</p></dd>
+ <dt>Quality</dt>
+ <dd><p>Selects the method to use when scaling an image down for thumbnails.</p>
<dl>
- <dd class="gq-general-6"><br />
- <br />
- </dd>
+ <dt>Nearest</dt><dd>Fastest scaler, but results in poor thumbnail quality.</dd>
+ <dt>Tiles</dt><dd>Thumbnail results are very close to bilinear, with better speed.</dd>
+ <dt>Bilinear</dt><dd>High quality results, moderately fast.</dd>
+ <dt>Hyper</dt><dd>Slowest scaler, sometimes gives better results than bilinear.</dd>
</dl>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>Cache thumbnails</dt>
+ <dd><p>Enable this to save thumbnails to disk, subsequent requests for a thumbnail will be faster. Thumbnails are cached into ($HOME)/.geeqie/thumbnails. Refer to <a href="reference_thumbnails.html">Thumbnails Reference</a> for details.</p></dd>
- <h2>Thumbnails</h2>
-
- <dl>
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dd class="gq-general-7"><b>Size</b>: Selects the size of the thumbnails displayed throughout Geeqie, dimensions are width by height in pixels.</dd>
-
- <dd class="gq-general-7"><b>Quality</b>: Selects the method to use when scaling an image down for thumbnails.</dd>
- </dl>
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <dt>Use shared thumbnail cache</dt>
+ <dd><p>This will use a thumbnail caching method that is compatible with applications that use the standard thumbnail specification. When this option is enabled thumbnails will be stored in ($HOME)/.thumbnails<p></dd>
- <p><b>Nearest</b>: Fastest scaler, but results in poor thumbnail quality.<br />
- <b>Tiles</b>: Thumbnail results are very close to bilinear, with better speed.<br />
- <b>Bilinear</b>: High quality results, moderately fast.<br />
- <b>Hyper</b>: Slowest scaler, sometimes gives better results than bilinear.</p>
+ <dt>Cache thumbnails into .thumbnails</dt>
+ <dd><p>When enabled, Geeqie attempts to store cached thumbnails closer to the source image. This way multiple users can benefit from a single cache, thereby reducing wasted disk space. The resulting location is the source image's folder, in a sub folder with the name <b>.thumbnails</b>. When the image source folder cannot be written, Geeqie falls back to saving the thumbnail in the user's home folder.</p></dd>
- <dl>
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dd class="gq-general-9"><b>Cache thumbnails</b>: Enable this to save thumbnails to disk, subsequent requests for a thumbnail will be faster. Thumbnails are cached into ($HOME)/.geeqie/thumbnails. Refer to <a href="reference_thumbnails.html">Thumbnails Reference</a> for details.</dd>
-
- <dd class="gq-general-9"><b>Use shared thumbnail cache:</b> This will use a thumbnail caching method that is compatible with applications that use the standard thumbnail specification. When this option is enabled thumbnails will be stored in ($HOME)/.thumbnails</dd>
-
- <dd class="gq-general-9"><b>Cache thumbnails into .thumbnails</b>: When enabled, Geeqie attempts to store cached thumbnails closer to the source image. This way multiple users can benefit from a single cache, thereby reducing wasted disk space. The resulting location is the source image's folder, in a sub folder with the name <b>.thumbnails</b>. When the image source folder cannot be written, Geeqie falls back to saving the thumbnail in the user's home folder.</dd>
-
- <dd class="gq-general-7"><b>Use xvpics thumbnails when found</b>: xvpics is a common thumbnail caching format used by several applications. Thumbnails are stored locally to the source image in a sub folder with the name <b>.xvpics</b>. Enabling this option will allow Geeqie to read thumbnails saved in the xvpics format.</dd>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dd class="gq-general-7"><p class="note">Note: Support for xvpics is read only, Geeqie can not generate thumbnails in this format.</p></dd>
- </dl>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </dd>
+ <dt>Use xvpics thumbnails when found</dt>
+ <dd><p>xvpics is a common thumbnail caching format used by several applications. Thumbnails are stored locally to the source image in a sub folder with the name <b>.xvpics</b>. Enabling this option will allow Geeqie to read thumbnails saved in the xvpics format.</p>
+ <p class="note">Note: Support for xvpics is read only, Geeqie can not generate thumbnails in this format.</p></dd>
</dl>
-
+
<p><br />
<br />
</p>
<h2>Slide show</h2>
- <dl>
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dd class="gq-general-7"><b>Delay between image change</b>: Specifies the delay between images for slide shows, in seconds.</dd>
-
- <dd class="gq-general-7"><b>Random</b>: When enabled, slide show images will appear in random order.</dd>
-
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dd class="gq-general-7"><p class="note">Note: Random images are displayed such that each image appears once per cycle of all images. When the slide show repeat option is enabled, the image order is randomized after completing each cycle.</p></dd>
- </dl>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dd class="gq-general-7"><b>Repeat</b>: When enabled, slide shows will continue at the beginning after the last image is displayed.</dd>
- </dl>
- </dd>
-
- <dd class="gq-general-10"><br />
- <br />
- </dd>
+ <dl class="dialog_desc">
+ <dt>Delay between image change</dt>
+ <dd><p>Specifies the delay between images for slide shows, in seconds.</p></dd>
+
+ <dt>Random</dt>
+ <dd><p>When enabled, slide show images will appear in random order.</p>
+ <p class="note">Note: Random images are displayed such that each image appears once per cycle of all images. When the slide show repeat option is enabled, the image order is randomized after completing each cycle.</p></dd>
+
+ <dt>Repeat</dt>
+ <dd><p>When enabled, slide shows will continue at the beginning after the last image is displayed.</p></dd>
</dl>
<p><br />
<p>This section describes the options not accessible by the graphical interface, these options exist to maintain behavior of older releases of Geeqie. To change these settings, edit the Geeqie configuration file:</p>
- <pre class="gq-hidden-6">
+ <p>
+ <code>
($HOME)/.geeqie/geeqierc
-</pre>
+</code>
+</p>
<p><br />
<br />
<h2>Zoom</h2>
- <p><b>Quality</b>: Selects the method used to scale the size of an image.</p>
+ <dl class="dialog_desc">
+ <dt>Quality</dt>
+ <dd><p>Selects the method used to scale the size of an image.</p>
- <p><b>Nearest</b>: Fastest scaler, but results in poor image quality.<br />
- <b>Tiles</b>: Results are somewhat close to bilinear, with better speed.<br />
- <b>Bilinear</b>: High quality results, moderately fast.<br />
- <b>Hyper</b>: Slowest scaler, sometimes gives better results than bilinear.</p>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Nearest</dt><dd>Fastest scaler, but results in poor image quality.</dd>
+ <dt>Tiles</dt><dd>Results are somewhat close to bilinear, with better speed.</dd>
+ <dt>Bilinear</dt><dd>High quality results, moderately fast.</dd>
+ <dt>Hyper</dt><dd>Slowest scaler, sometimes gives better results than bilinear.</dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ <dt>Two pass zooming</dt>
+ <dd><p>Enables Geeqie to first display a scaled image using the nearest zoom quality. After image decoding is complete, the image is scaled again using the selected “Zoom (scaling)” method. This allows faster display of an image as it is decoded from the source file.</p></dd>
- <p><b>Two pass zooming</b>: Enables Geeqie to first display a scaled image using the nearest zoom quality. After image decoding is complete, the image is scaled again using the selected “Zoom (scaling)” method. This allows faster display of an image as it is decoded from the source file.</p>
+ <dt>Allow enlargement of image for zoom to fit</dt>
+ <dd><p>Enable this to allow Geeqie to increase the image size for images that are smaller than the current view area when the zoom is set to “Fit to Window”.</p></dd>
- <p><b>Allow enlargement of image for zoom to fit</b>: Enable this to allow Geeqie to increase the image size for images that are smaller than the current view area when the zoom is set to “Fit to Window”.</p>
+ <dt>Zoom increment</dt>
+ <dd><p>Adjusts the step size when zooming in or out on an image. This value corresponds to the percentage of the original image.</p></dd>
- <p><b>Zoom increment</b>: Adjusts the step size when zooming in or out on an image. This value corresponds to the percentage of the original image.</p>
+ </dl>
<p><br />
<br />
<h2>Zoom control</h2>
- <p><span class="gq-image-8"><b>When new image is selected</b>:</span> This controls the behavior of the zoom setting when changing the displayed image.</p>
+ <dl class="dialog_desc">
+ <dt>When new image is selected</dt>
+ <dd><p>This controls the behavior of the zoom setting when changing the displayed image.</p>
- <p><b>Zoom to original size</b>: The new image is set to it's original size.<br />
- <b>Fit image to window</b>: The new image's zoom is changed so that the image will fit within the current view area.<br />
- <b>Leave zoom at previous setting</b>: The zoom setting is unchanged, the new image will be scaled the same as the previous image.</p>
+ <dl>
+ <dt>Zoom to original size</dt><dd>The new image is set to it's original size.</dd>
+ <dt>Fit image to window</dt><dd>The new image's zoom is changed so that the image will fit within the current view area.</dd>
+ <dt>Leave zoom at previous setting</dt><dd>The zoom setting is unchanged, the new image will be scaled the same as the previous image.</dd>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
<p><br />
<br />
<h2>Appearance</h2>
- <p><b>Black background</b>: Enable this to draw the image background (the area around the image) in black.</p>
+ <dl class="dialog_desc">
+ <dt>Black background</dt>
+ <dd><p>Enable this to draw the image background (the area around the image) in black.</p></dd>
+ </dl>
<p><br />
<br />
<h2>Convenience</h2>
- <p><b>Refresh on file change</b>: Geeqie will monitor currently active images and folders for changes in their modification time, and update the display if it changes.</p>
-
+ <dl class="dialog_desc">
+ <dt>Refresh on file change</dt>
+ <dd><p>Geeqie will monitor currently active images and folders for changes in their modification time, and update the display if it changes.</p>
<p class="note">Note: Disable this if the system will not go into sleep mode due to occasional disk activity from the time check, or if Geeqie updates too often for folders with continuously changing content.</p>
+ </dd>
- <p><b>Preload next image</b>: Enabling this option will cause Geeqie to read the next logical image from disk when idle, it will also retain the previously viewed image in memory. By reading the nearest images into memory, time to display the next image is reduced.</p>
+ <dt>Preload next image</dt>
+ <dd><p>Enabling this option will cause Geeqie to read the next logical image from disk when idle, it will also retain the previously viewed image in memory. By reading the nearest images into memory, time to display the next image is reduced.</p>
+ <p class="note">Note: This option will increase Geeqie memory requirements, and may cause performance issues with very large images. If the use of Geeqie results in the system noticeably swapping memory to disk, try disabling this feature.</p></dd>
- <dl>
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dd>
- <dl>
- <dd class="gq-image-12"><p class="note">Note: This option will increase Geeqie memory requirements, and may cause performance issues with very large images. If the use of Geeqie results in the system noticeably swapping memory to disk, try disabling this feature.</p></dd>
- </dl>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </dd>
+ <dt>Auto rotate image using EXIF information</dt>
+ <dd><p>Auto rotates images based on data stored in images that include EXIF data.</p></dd>
</dl>
- <p><b>Auto rotate image using EXIF information</b>: Auto rotates images based on data stored in images that include EXIF data.</p>
-
<p><br />
<br />
</p>
<h2>State</h2>
- <p><b>Remember window positions</b>: This will maintain the main window size and position between Geeqie sessions.</p>
+ <dl class="dialog_desc">
+ <dt>Remember window positions</dt>
+ <dd><p>This will maintain the main window size and position between Geeqie sessions.</p></dd>
- <p><b>Remember tool state</b>: This will maintain the tool window state between Geeqie sessions.</p>
+ <dt>Remember tool state</dt>
+ <dd><p>This will maintain the tool window state between Geeqie sessions.</p></dd>
+ </dl>
<p><br />
<br />
<h2>Size</h2>
- <p><b>Fit window to image when tools are hidden/floating</b>: The main window will be resized to accommodate each image's size and proportions when the image pane is the only one visible within the window.</p>
+ <dl class="dialog_desc">
- <p><b>Limit size when auto-sizing window</b>: This will restrict the maximum size a window can grow to automatically fit an image. The value represents the percentage of the desktop size in width and height.</p>
+ <dt>Fit window to image when tools are hidden/floating</dt>
+ <dd><p>The main window will be resized to accommodate each image's size and proportions when the image pane is the only one visible within the window.</p></dd>
+
+ <dt>Limit size when auto-sizing window</dt>
+ <dd><p>This will restrict the maximum size a window can grow to automatically fit an image. The value represents the percentage of the desktop size in width and height.</p></dd>
+ </dl>
<p><br />
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