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Re: thumbnail/preview size

 

Le 28/12/2010 10:23, Damon Lynch a écrit :
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Damon Lynch <damonlynch@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:damonlynch@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Morphal <morphal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto: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

Nice !

What about the thumbnails in the column on the left part? I think that
it would be great when enlarging the column size to increase thumbnail size

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

In my case the large thumbnails look blurry, I guess the version of that
library in Ubuntu Maverick is <=0.2.x ? How to check?

>
> All in all, I think this is a nice usability improvement. Thanks for
> the prompting.
>
> Damon
> -- 
> http://www.damonlynch.net


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