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

[Gilles Caulier]

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Gilles Caulier

Le mer. 14 oct. 2020 à 08:48, Thomas D <sdktda at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> Hi Maik,
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> Cool! Is there a nightly build somewhere where I can check this out?
> Or when is this planned to be in a release?
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> BR
> Thomas
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> Den tir. 13. okt. 2020 kl. 20.30 skrev Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>:
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>> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/
>> b9f83d32ecbcd1992e91033a0c619b271014518f
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>> 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.
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>> Maik
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>> Am Dienstag, 13. Oktober 2020, 13:22:49 CEST schrieb Thomas D:
>> > Hi Maik,
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>> > 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]
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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
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>> > Den tir. 13. okt. 2020 kl. 12.40 skrev Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com
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>> > > 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
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>> > > > 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
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>> > > > 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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