Eye Of Gnome (eog) for Ubuntu 9.10 doesn't support pause and resume of slideshow

My friend wanted to use the image viewer for Gnome, Eye of Gnome or eog, as a slideshow player for a simple presentation. However, we could not find any controls or buttons to pause or resume playback of the images. Pressing the spacebar to pause and resume the slideshow was mentioned on a few sites, but when trying the space bar, the image changes to the next.

We are now looking at other image viewers that provide a simple slideshow with pause and resume functions.

J

Notes: Eye of GNOME 2.28.1