Can I hide the zoom navigation tool?

Software darktable
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Good morning, I would like to know if there is any way to move (Optional) the small menu for zoom (Fit, Small, etc) to the downside of the main image panel and close or hide the zoom navigation tool. I did a quick search here but couldn’t find a solution.

I know that I can hide the complete panel with the black left arrow but I prefer to keep it open because of the history, image information and mask manager menus. The thing is that I never use that small image for zooming, just the scroll with my mouse or the ctrl shortcut and I prefer to use that space for the rest of the tools.

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Maybe this:

Allow for selecting the utility modules to be displayed on the panels in the different views.

  • Right-click on the empty panel area below the modules to get a menu where they can be hidden or shown. This allows additional modules to be added to the darkroom, like metadata editor and styles.
  • This replaces the options in the “collections” and “recently used collections” modules’ preferences to show or hide the latter and show a “history” button in the former instead. Users that want the separate module will need to reenable it once via the new Right-click menu.
  • The menu also contains an option “restore defaults” that resets the selection and position of modules in the current view. In the preferences dialog, on the general tab, there’s a “reset view panels” button that resets all views, including visibility and width of the panels themselves.
    (darktable 5.0.0 released | darktable)

I’m not at my computer, cannot test. It does work for some modules.

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I don’t see the nav tool option there but thanks for the idea.

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Sorry :frowning:

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I too once wanted to get rid of it.

But I now, as mentioned, hide the whole left panel, to maximize my image space. I realised that I don’t go to history, etc, that often, and when I do, it is only one extra click to show the panel.

(Thought: can one make a shortcut for history? And would that expand the panel if hidden? I’ll try it!)
(edit: No. It doesn’t expand the panel)

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Beautiful photo btw!

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[ctrl][shift][n] toggles the navigation panel off/on. If your tooltips are turned on, just hovering over it gives that info. Or: darktable user manual - navigation

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@Thad_E_Ginathom, Thanks. Interestingly, it is [command][shift][n] for osx but not [ctrl][shift][n] .

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Thanks :slight_smile:

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Great. I should have read that part of the manual too. Thank you.

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Me too. But, as I now almost always work with the left panel closed, I hadn’t thought about the unwanted nav panel for a long time

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You can also move the histogram to the left after closing the nav display and maximize the vertical space on the right… its in preferences

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In my case I do use the history panel quite a lot, mainly for “before and after”. For the histogram or the waveform monitor, @priort I prefer to keep it on the right because that is where the settings are, and I pay close attention to the monitor, so I don’t have to turn my head so much from right to left :grin:. But it’s a good point too.

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