ShowImage's slide show starts in the wrong folder

[jackburton]

Double click on a symlink (to an image), and then start the slide show: it'll show the images in the folder where the original linked image is, and not where the symlink is. Hope that was clear enough.

[johndrinkwater]

Should be able to fix that easily enough with an adjustment to ShowImageView::FindNextImageByDir() ? Just get it to traverse the entry_ref when it's agiven..

[jackburton]

Looking at the code, I can't see how this bug can show up, as the entry_refs are never traversed, in any place.

[jackburton]

Maybe I found the problem:

ShowImageView::FindNextImageByDir() uses GetNextRef() to get the next image to show. The bebook says about it:

"GetNextRef() return the next entry in ref. Since an entry_ref doesn't supply enough information to determine if the entry is a link, there's no question of traversal: The entry_ref points to exactly the next entry."

What does "The entry_ref points to exactly the next entry" mean ? It does always traverse or it does never traverse ? If it always traverse, that's the problem, and we should use GetNextEntry() instead.

[jackburton]

Tracker resolve the link before sending the message to ShowImage (as verified by Korli), so we can't fix this bug within ShowImage.

[johndrinkwater]

Should this bug be labelled as invalid, or does Tracker passing a resolved symlink constitute a bug?

[axeld]

We could experiment with Tracker, but I'm not sure yet if this improves or worsens the overall user experience. I'll close it for now.