[Digikam-devel] Big, very big previews

Arnd Baecker arnd.baecker at web.de
Mon Dec 8 11:49:11 GMT 2008


On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Pau [utf-8] RuĂ…^@lan Ferragut wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:40:57AM +0100, Gilles Caulier wrote:
>
> >On the bottom of this dialog, there is an option for preview mode (F3 with
> >album gui)
>
> I found the option, but it is not my point. I would like this:
> http://bulma.net/~paurullan/stuff/digikam-mockup.png

((I just removed Gilles reply, so I am answering to this one))

While 256x256 is a good choice for cache reasons,
there should be no principle difficulty to increase this
to 512x512 (or even to 1024x1024 if the machine is fast enough).
But (and that's a pretty big "but"): the thumnails are stored in
~/.thumbnails/large and the freedesktop thumbnail standard
is 256x256 for this. So increasing this would break this.
Moreover, this will lead to quite a bit of disk space usage
in this directory...

However, I do understand the wish!
Maybe there is some other approach which could be done
(eg. using the cached version first, but then display
a refined variant internally? This is to some extent
related to http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146260)?

Best, Arnd



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