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

[ron.orenstein at rogers.com]

Thanks - that did the trick!

Ronald Orenstein 1825 Shady Creek Court Mississauga, ON L5L 3W2 Canada ronorenstein.blogspot.com
On Oct 13, 2020, 4:30 PM -0400, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>, wrote:
> 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?
>
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