[Digikam-devel] maximal Thumbnail size

[Mikolaj Machowski]

Dnia sobota 05 maj 2007, Gilles Caulier napisał:
> Sebastian,
>
> I'm not agree with this patch. Why ? Because, supporting thumbnails
> largest than 256 will consume a lot of memory in pixmap cache manager
> and will slowdown digiKam.

I tried this patch with increased size of Huge in thumbnailsize.h for
about one hour with recreating of several hundreds of thumbnails and
didn't notice increased memory usage.

> Also, the thumnails size is standardized by freedesktop.org to be
> compatible between KDE, Gnome, etc. The max size is 256. The thumbs
> cache is saved on your hdd in your home directory and is shared by other
> applications.

Well, big monitors are more common and affordable. It this is possible
in few years sizes of thumbnails in standard will increase. Since this
patch only removes hardcoded values and not increase size of thumbnails
by itself I think it is quite good.

m.