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[Shuunen]

Hi there :)

Thanks for your project, really nice, I wanted to drop Picasa Photo Viewer to use an open source project like yours, but I miss the shadow background behind opened image :

What do you think, is this could be a new feature of vimage ?

[Torrunt]

Yeah, that's something that's possible.

How would multiple images work though? wouldn't the backgrounds start to stack?

One way I can think of is that there would need to be an option to enable this as a new "fullscreen mode". Which would also make vimage handle multiple images differently. They would have to open as separate movable images in one instance; rather than multiple windows. That fancy open/close animation would also be possible in this new mode.

Would require a bit of work but I think it would be a cool addition.

[Shuunen]

There is not stacked backgrounds in the Picasa Viewer, just one full screen shadow and then images are displayed on top of it. By pressing escape you leave the full screen mode and the shadow disappear. At this moment it looks like vimage.

If you want it copy of Picasa viewer (it's a free software) to try it out or if you want other gif or videos let me know ☺️

The animations are nice, the previous and next images are preloaded to avoid lag or blinking.

[TomberWolf]

I would like to second that!
I'm using PicView as alternative to Picasa, but it's growing and growing and needs more and more ressources.

But it would be nice to have a 'Fullscreen Focus' mode as well. So that everything around the image darkens and becomes blurry, or something like that.