Added to bugzilla as Enhancement:

https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=649

Please add the capability of selecting a folder and running a Slideshow. We should have the ability to determine the wait time between images (4-10 seconds?) and it would be nice if we could select an audio track (embed the audio player) to listen to as the slides tick off.

One of the main things I cannot stand about my 770 is that the buttons on the joystick are too close to the casing, and my fingers are too big, and I cannot press the button once, every time I press it the thing jumps 5 pictures forward, and I miss half of my folder. I'm so tired of trying to enjoy the imageviewer but I just can't find it enjoyable since all I do is mash the keys and jump past everything. A
slideshow feature would not only be a cool addition to the device, but it would also take away the frustration of the hardware, which cannot simply be updated like the OS can. I love Bugzilla because I have a chance to help fix things and make the 770 better, but you can't fix the hardware aspects, they are the way they are. So if you add the Slideshow, you turn one of the things I got the device for (photo viewing and presentation) and make it actually user-friendly for us, the hamfisted of the world.

For the slideshow to work properly, when pictures that the Imageviewer can't view crop up, it should just skip them and not mention it onscreen (interrupting the slideshow) it should just barrel on around them.

Now, for a demonstration of a truly awesome slideshow program, download Irfanview, install, and go to the Slideshow feature and see how this man has implemented the feature, and just COPY IT. You'll have brilliance, and you won't have to work that hard for it.

It lets you port in images from multiple folders, loading links to the images you choose into a central workstation area, choose how long to stay on each image, and whether or not to use transitions, and what kind of transitions if so, and then save the whole thing as a Slideshow project you can just load and play. You can create any number of Slideshows from your picture directories, arrange them in whatever you like, and save each projects as playlists, meaning the images are never touched. With my added idea of having the audio player run a song in the background, you'd have quite the presentation, and you wouldn't have to be near the device to enjoy it.

Think of the sales repercussions of such a Slideshow feature. Vendors (like Sears, or Wal-Mart) could mount 770's on the walls in their stores and have slideshows run about their products. Heck, as cheap as they are, each area could have its own 770 running its own slideshow advertising new prices and deals, and Summer/Spring/Winter/Fall lineups FOR THAT DEPARTMENT.

The screen-saving feature, of course, would have to be turned off during the slideshow for this to be effective.

Thanks for your time.