no "back" button when in single photo view

[frizzle21]

Binary package hint: shotwell

after double clicking an image to deal with it in single view, i would expect to have a mouse way of getting back to the previous view, position, pan and scale at once.
1) a simple "back" button would do the trick, since changing from gallery to single view is like opening an extra page.
2) Alternatively, the thumb, upon double click, could scale in over the gallery, eventually replacing the gallery view. In that case there should be a "thumb view" button to take me back to the previous view sice, since scaling in is reversed by scaling out in the user's natural mental model.

[Jim Nelson (yorba-jim)]

We have a ticket for adding a back button or menu item: http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2719

[Robert Stephenson (rstephe)]

While not a showstopper, this bug, which dates to 2010, is a serious usability issue. The lack of a Back button makes it almost impossible to search for a particular photo. Normally one does this starting at a high level view (library or events), diving down to photo view to see if you found what you wanted, then zooming Back out to the high level and continuing the search. Rinse and repeat. The lack of a Back button makes this operation impossible.