GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 43335
Always make thumbnails for visited files
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:18:10 UTC
Recently, we added an upper bound on file size, above which it won't try to automatically create a thumbnail image. Additionally, it's possible to turn off automatic thumbnailing entirely, or just for remote files. So it would be nice to have an explicit "Make Thumbnail" command, to allow the user to make thumbnails for the images that they care the most about. This is probably a post-1.0 feature, though. ------- Additional Comments From andy@eazel.com 2000-09-28 12:36:21 ---- I'd like this sooner, but I don't think we have time to do it until after 1.0. ------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-16 19:50:29 ---- Batch-assigning QA ownership of remaining bugs to eli@eazel.com ------- Additional Comments From tigert@ximian.com 2001-03-29 08:44:37 ---- I just want to give my $1 here. This would be very useful, I use nautilus a lot to view and sort my digital photos. The upper bound thing is very good to prevent swapping-to-death, but it would be nice to have this "Force thumbnail" option, as my digital camera makes about 1.6MB files currently (so I patched the filesize limit to about 4MB so it makes thumbnails for most of my photos) But if I shoot a TIFF image with the "non-lossy" option, the file will be 16MB (yeah, I am waiting for digicams that write PNG, would be cool). Anyway. Those 16MB files are rather big and I probably wouldnt want auto-thumbnailing for them, but it would be nice to have the "force thumbnail" menu command for it. I would also like to have a preferences option for the max size, I think a lot of people are having the new digital cameras, and the image sizes reach up to 2MB now, which is just above the current limit. That is annoying, and I guess most people dont understand why the thumbnails are not being generated, and get frustrated (happened to me first) I think viewing photos is one of the most useful uses of the thumbnail view. I even did some small scripts to rotate the jpegs with a lossless way (using jpegtran) so my nautilus is very powerful for this task. :) ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:40 -------
This is partially related to bug 99271.
This is also partially related to bug 101029. The "future" milestone was set over a year ago, before the official release of GNOME2. I believe this milestone (which was no longer relevant) was also the reason that the GNOMEVER2.3 keyword was recently set. I'm going to remove both. Also, due to the close relation of this bug to bug 99271 and bug 101029 (which are not enhancements) and tigert's request, I'm thinking that the priority and severity might need to be raised for this bug (if not, this bug could probably at least be fixed at the same time as those bugs). Since I'm unsure, I'm going to remove the bugsquad keyword so that hopefully someone from there will take a look.
Those two bugs are RESOLVED now. Thumbnails are now refreshed if the source file changes. So that leaves this bug pretty much as it was: a request for a way to manually create a thumbnail for an image above the limit. I don't have this probelm, but I would be enclined to think that there is a better way to fix it. Maybe work on the upper limit and related behaviors.
I had a fantabulous idea. In Nautilus 2.2 all images have an "Image" tab in their properties window. We could add a "Regenerate Thumbnail" button there.
bug still here with 2.8.1
The explicit "Regenerate Thumbnail" command (as proposed in comment #4 above) would also be useful when unfortunate frames are chosen from videos by Totem. A nice look at the floor or an all-black frame, for example. If/when Totem's frame selection algorithm adds some randomness, the user could click until a good frame was chosen. Maybe the thumbnail in the "Basic" tab of the Properties dialog should be clickable to regenate the thumbnail as well. Related to Bug 140679.
*** Bug 106092 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Might be worth mentioning that Windows Explorer allows you to mark certain folders to have Previews and not with others. (You set a default view style and then ask windows to remember the folders where you set it to be different.) This might work better than a more specific approach focusses solely on Thumbnails.
*** Bug 311551 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 319327 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 320381 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think one way to make this just work is to always have thumbnails/previews for files I've opened.
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