MMP: Minimalist Media Player

Consider, if you will, the following scenario:

You open the Image & Thumbnail Browser from the main MMP window by pressing [T] (while viewing an image file) or [Y] while viewing any type of media file.

In your current folder you have 140 images and the Image & Thumbnail Browser is displaying 70 thumbnails per page: 7 rows of 10 thumbnails.

This gives you a total of two pages of thumbnails:
Page 1 is thumbnails 1 to 70
Page 2 is thumbnails 71 to 140

MMP confirms this by displaying Page 1 / 2 in the bottom right-hand corner.

You can flick between the two pages using the arrow keys:
[←] goes to page two: page 2 / 2
[→] goes back to page one: page 1 / 2

Now, you click on thumbnail 52 to view the full image, and you then return to the Thumbnail view by pressing [T].
MMP will generate a full page of 70 thumbnails starting with a thumbnail of the image you were viewing.

Consequently, you will be looking at a display of thumbnails 52 to 122.

Question: which page are you on?

It's not page 1, as we've already established that page 1 is thumbnails 1 to 70.
And it's not page 2, as you would then be looking at thumbnails 71 to 140.

So, which page is it?

Is it Shrödinger's thumbnail page? Simultaneously one of the two pages of thumbnails but neither page 1 nor page 2?

As the greatest philosophical minds of the current age weren't able to supply a timely answer to this knotty problem during development of the Image & Thumbnail Browser, MMP has adopted the convention of affixing an “a” to these artificial page numbers.

Consequently, in the above scenario, thumbnails 52 to 122 will be shown as page 1a / 2.

If you page backwards, you will return to page 1 / 2, and if you then page forwards, you will reach page 2 / 2, as expected.

One thing is for sure: reading Hegel will now seem much easier.