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[Damon Lynch <damonlynch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Damon Lynch <damonlynch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Morphal <morphal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Just a thing : I was looking for a way to increase the size of the
>> thumbnails in the 'file' column on the left side of the window, and
>> maybe also the size of the preview on the right size of the window.. any
>> way to add this feature? This would help my mother to select her
>> pictures more easily
>>
>
> I'll look into this now, via some kind of zoom in and out option. It's very
> important to keep the current size available as the default,  because for
> users on netbooks and other small screens, if the picture is any bigger the
> window will not display properly on their tiny screens.
>
>
I have coded the new feature. Attached are a couple of screenshots. The
VirtualBox image simulates a tiny screen only 600px tall, like on many
netbooks. The other is a regular screen. The max thumbnail in the latter is
320px tall / wide. If anyone wants to test it out, it's a simple matter of
downloading the latest code from launchpad, which is trivial with bzr:

bzr branch lp:rapid

A hint: if you're running pyexiv2 >= 0.2.x, the large size thumbnails can
look a lot nicer!

All in all, I think this is a nice usability improvement. Thanks for the
prompting.

Damon
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http://www.damonlynch.net

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