[digiKam-users] How to get wider range of thumbnail sizes

[Thomas D]

Hi Ron,

Please see this screenshot:

[image: image.png]


And yes, it is confusing that this option is directly below the text "Icon
View Font:".


Den tir. 13. okt. 2020 kl. 14.33 skrev Ronald Orenstein <
ron.orenstein at rogers.com>:

> Hi all -
>
> I am using the mac version of Digikam (7.1.0) and cannot find the large
> thumbnails option under either settings or preferences,  Under the settings
> tab the only available options are Configure Language, Themes, Configure
> Keyboard Shortcuts, Configure Toolbars and Database Migration.  Is there a
> way to increase thumbnail size in the Mac build?
>
> Thanks - Ron
>
> Ronald Orenstein
> 1825 Shady Creek Court
> Mississauga, ON L5L 3W2
> Canada
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>
>
> On Tuesday, October 13, 2020, 07:23:23 a.m. EDT, Thomas D <
> sdktda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Maik,
>
> Found "use large thumbnails for high res monitors" in Settings. I did not
> understand this option to do this. I thought it was about the internal
> thumbnail resolution and not the actual display size.
> Is there any reason not to just allow the user to define the range?
>
> I do not understand why thumbnails below 100 should not be useful. It is
> entirely useful. In Gwenview, I can scale the thumbnails down to 48x48.
> This is really useful when doing a first pass sorting through a large
> amount of incoming photos in which a lot of photos are clearly from the
> same set or same event.
> I have attached a screenshot (pixelated for privacy reasons) of Gwenview
> with thumbnail size set to 48x48.  In this screenshot. Even with the
> pixilation, it is easy to see that each of the three marked selections are
> related. Now, these selections are small for the sake of having an example
> that would easily illustrate the problem. However, in practice, sometimes
> these sets can be hundreds of photos that are nearly identical. And I
> typically need to sort these into folders for each set and then finely sort
> through them set by set at a later stage.
> I would love that digikam would allow me to do this!
>
>
> Screenshot:
> [image: tgu.png]
>
> You mention that the text is shortened and rating stars cut off when
> thumbnails are this small. I do not see that as a problem. Quite the
> contrary. I would absolutely love it if all the additional details like
> text, rating stars, etc. are hidden when using thumbnails below a certain
> size. Typically you would not rate photos nor care about filenames when you
> are working with thumbnails this small.
>
> Would it at least be possible to allow the user to decide this by having
> the slider go down to, say, 48x48 and then have DK hide everything but the
> actual thumbnail when size is below X (where could be 100 or something
> suitable)?
>
> Just like with the large thumbnails, this behavior could be something that
> could be enabled with a checkbox in the Settings.
>
> Another useful idea: Would it be possible to have a quick toggle that
> would show/hide all the text, rating stars, etc. in the thumbnail view. E.g
> by a shortcut key or similar? That would be really handy!
>
>
> BR
> Thomas
>
>
> Den tir. 13. okt. 2020 kl. 12.40 skrev Maik Qualmann <
> metzpinguin at gmail.com>:
>
> Thumbnails with a size of up to 512 pixels can be activated in the digiKam
> settings. A test here with thumbnails smaller than 100 pixels is not
> really
> useful, the text is only shortened, the rating stars are cut off, it
> doesn't
> look good.
>
> Maik
>
> Am Freitag, 9. Oktober 2020, 14:46:10 CEST schrieb Thomas D:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Using the slider on the image below, I can change the size of thumbnails
> > from  128x128 to 256x256px. This is a rather narrow size range.
> > [image: image.png]
> >
> >   I would very much like to be able to move the slider down to at least
> > 64x64 but maybe even down further (48x48 or 32x32) as this will allow me
> to
> > much more easily sort folders with large amounts of images.  I would also
> > sometimes, however not as often, like to be able to increase the size of
> > thumbnails when I am, for example, sorting out images based on some
> smaller
> > details or on sharpness. When I am on a very high resolution monitor,
> even
> > 256x256 is not very big.
> >
> > So I hope there is a way to adjust these limits.Is there a config setting
> > or a  config file or something where I can do this?
>
>
>
>
>
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