Our current thumbnailing algorithm reads an entire image into memory before
scaling it with gdk_pixbuf.  Since images can be quite large, loading them
entirely into memory can bring the system to its knees.  Therefore, we don't
attempt to thumbnail images that are bigger than a predetermined size threshold,
which is currently set to 1 megabyte.

This is less than ideal - users don't know about the threshold, and think
Nautilus is erratic.  We need a better thumbnailing algorithm that works
incrementally, only reading a small percentage of the image into memory at a
time.  Once we have this, we can remove the size constraint.

This functionality might be best done in gdk-pixbuf, so it can be integrated
with the different image type handlers.

This is clearly a post 1.0 task.



------- Additional Comments From andy@eazel.com 2001-03-08 22:06:19 ----

*** Bug 47600 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:57 -------