[Digikam-devel] Auto-generate album thumbs

[Andi Clemens]

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


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