[Digikam-devel] Auto-generate album thumbs

[Andi Clemens]

Since nobody else seems to have something to say about this (although I think 
it is really useful), I will add it as a wish to BKO now.

Andi

On Monday 29 June 2009 21:09:21 Andi Clemens wrote:
> This is another patch, allowing the auto creation of thumbs for albums by
> two types:
> First Item - Use the first item as album thumbnail
> Random Item - Well, use a random item from this album :-)
>
> What do you think, you have not answered yet. Is this feature worth
> implementing? If you ask me, YES :-)
>
> If not, please tell me, before I might continue working on this.
> I started this as some users complained, but now I actually really like it.
>
> It could be improved though, I'm sure.
>
> Andi
>
> On Tuesday 16 June 2009 14:10:05 Andi Clemens wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I created a private GIT branch where I test the feature "autoThumbs".
> > If you have many albums, it becomes quite annoying to set an icon for
> > every album.
> >
> > With this patch you can auto-generate album icons. For this, the first
> > item of every album is read and set as the album thumbnail.
> >
> > Thumbnails that have been already set will not be overwritten of course.
> > It works quite will here, but I'm not sure if everything has been setup
> > correctly.
> >
> > What do you think? Maybe we should also remove the context menu action
> > "Reset Album Icon" when the autoThumbs option is set?
> > Because right now this action will set the first item of an album as the
> > current thumbnail. This is because we reset the icon, the thumbloader
> > recognizes this and because of autoThumbs, sets the icon automatically
> > again.
> >
> > Another way to use this: create a global action, so the user can decide
> > when to auto-generate those thumbs.
> >
> > Marcel,
> >
> > do you see any problems with the albumthumbloader here?
> >
> > Andi