[Digikam-users] Thumbnails blury in digiKam 1.0.0

[Stedtlund]

2010/1/18 Vlado Plaga <rechner at vlado-do.de>:
> Am Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:36:09 +0100
> schrieb Stedtlund <falolaf at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> After upgrading to digiKam most of the thumbnails are blury.
>
> Do you mean upgrading digiKam 0.10 (or earlier) to 1.0?
Yes, that's what I mean. A miss from my side.

>The internal
> thumbnails format changed. The change is described in the changelog as
> follows:
>
> "General : digiKam use a new database to cache thumbnails instead
> ~./thumbnails. File format used to store image is PGF
> (http://www.libpgf.org). PGF is a wavelets based image compression
> format and give space optimizations."
I read that too, but I thougth that was going to be possitive...

>
> I also noticed a decline in thumbnail quality, but I did not consider
> it problematic enough to write a bug report for it. But maybe you could
> open one?
I can do that!

>
> As I wrote in a comment on a bug report related to this change in
> digiKam thumbnail storage, I'd still prefer a thumbnail directory
> shared between applications... but since the type of directory proposed
> there (with subdirectories made of MD5 hash sums) apparently does not
> exist for thumbnails yet, this would be a fair amount of work for
> digiKam developers:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210580#c15
>
>> Are there any parameters to tune to get better results?
>
> That would be a useful option indeed.
>
> Vlado
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