I agree, this is indead very annoying and not consistent with the way for example Nautilus works. Even after working a considerably amount of time with gThumb, I cannot get used to this.
Also, the mentioned bugreport http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302704 has something to with a proposed workaround: display some (selected) thumbnails. Though it's releaving the problem, the cause stays the same: please show images of the selected SUB-folder, this is the one BELOW the gnome combo-box. -- very uncomfortable browsing https://launchpad.net/bugs/37777 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs