[Thunar-dev] Thumbnails

[Yo'av Moshe]

I've been pretty quiet but I've read all of the discussion and tend to
disagree with some.

I think thumbnails are important. It is a powerful way to identify the
file, without opening it. It's not only used when going over an images
folder, but also at the every-day every-folder time, when there's a
picture at whatever folder - it's always good to know what it is.

Nowadays most of our pictures' file name says nothing - DSC1435.jpg,
pic0034.jpg, etc'. Thumbnails are the only way to really know what
file are you dealing with, since the *Image* is the *File*.

I believe that Nautilus does it close to prefect actually. No, there's
no need for thumbnails at the list-view. But yes, on normal view, you
should understand what image is it that you're messing with.

As for movies and text files - I tend to like it, but it's more of an
eye-candy than a useful feature, mostly because usually the file name
can say much more about the content of the file.

Yo'av.


On 6/29/05, Johannes Zellner <webmaster at nebulon.de> wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer schrieb:
> 
> >Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> >
> >
> >>2) Add a separate 'Thumbnail view'. I discovered this in Windows
> >>Explorer recently.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >In case somebody has no access to a winxp machine, I took two
> >screenshots to demonstrate what I mean:
> >
> >http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/explorer-filmstreifen-ansicht.png
> >
> >http://www.xfce.org/~benny/tmp/explorer-miniatur-ansicht.png
> >
> >Windows Explorer actually supports two different thumbnail related
> >views, the first ('Filmstreifen', dunno the english term used by
> >Microsoft) is probably not very well suited for a file manager, as this
> >is more of a task for a dedicated image program like gqview. But the
> >second looks pretty much like a good idea to me.
> >
> >Benedikt
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> Heyho
> 
> I'd like to have "Preview"/"Thumbnail" compromise.
> I think it's very useful to have the Images in the Icon-View as little
> Thumbnails, but only the Images, not Movies.
> And have a modulized system, which can handle various view-models, like
> a Image viewer (eg. like WindowsExplorer / i had something like that
> with nautilus too) or a movie-player-view, a music-player-view ;),
> probably a font-viewer.
> So this heavey work is only loaded if the user use it, that keeps
> Thunar-core small and fast and over the time more flexible.
> Because i don't wanna open a completely new application like eog for
> present my friends a image-gallery and I'll like have a fast and easy
> way to listen only to one musicfile, than add this to a playlist or open
> a new player.
> 
> Well this is a lot of work and I wouldn't know what to do. :-)
> 
> Just an Idea ;)
> 
> Bye
>    Johannes
> 
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