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

Mikolaj Machowski mikmach at wp.pl
Mon Mar 26 20:20:42 BST 2007


Dnia poniedziaƂek 26 marzec 2007, Gilles Caulier napisaƂ:
> >
> > 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...

You don't have to store such thumbnails. Qt smoothing is very good,
I think you could try scale 256 pixels thumbnails up to 384 without real
loss of quality.

m.




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