[Digikam-devel] [Bug 131155] Smooth increasing/decreasing size of thumbnails like in F-Spot or iPhoto

Fabien fabien.ubuntu at gmail.com
Mon Mar 26 11:26:55 BST 2007


Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 
>>  digiKam from trunk : add a new slider on the status bar to set
>         finelly the thumbs size in album icon view, like iphoto do.
>>  Now, you can set the thumbs size by step of 8 pixels between
>         32 to 256 instead the old 5 const sizes hardcoded (32, 64, 100,
>         160, 256)
> 
>         Could you remember us how it works ?
> 
>         Thumbnails are created in ~/.thumbnail and are shared with
>         konqueror. Is
>         this correct ?
> 
> 
>         How is determined the thumbnail filename ? Using a md5sum ?
> 
>         And finally, is it possible to have bigger thumbnails ?
> 
> 
>     Bigger thumbnails, over 256 pixels? Why ?
> 
> Fabien, for any memory performance reason, host thumbs size over 256 is 
> not realist, excepted if you have 4 Gb of memory in your computer. 
> Unforget than all thumbs form an album are cached into memory to 
> speed-up digiKam. Imaging than you have an album with over 100 pictures 
> and you store in memory thumbs with a size of 512 pixels...

Ok, I see :)
And about thumbnail filename ?

Thanks.

--
Fabien




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