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

[Maik Qualmann]

https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/
b9f83d32ecbcd1992e91033a0c619b271014518f

This commit now allows 100 pixel thumbnails as the smallest setting. In this 
setting, all other information is hidden except for the rating and file name 
and / or title. With smaller settings we get problems with the overlays above, 
the flags or the icon for groups.
The 100 pixels are definitely the smallest acceptable size for me, so that the 
operation and appearance typical of digiKam is retained.

Maik

Am Dienstag, 13. Oktober 2020, 13:22:49 CEST schrieb Thomas D:
> 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?