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Re: thumbnail/preview size
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From:
Morphal <morphal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date:
Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:06:01 +0100
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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:
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> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Morphal <morphal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:morphal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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.
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>
> 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:
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> 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?
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> 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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