[Thunar-dev] Thumbnails

[Benedikt Meurer]

Rain Viigipuu wrote:
> 2) Add a separate 'Thumbnail view'. I discovered this in Windows
> Explorer recently.
> 
> Definitely this one is better. Actually I think Windows Explorer in
> WinXP has done it really nice (for example - i have set the thumbnails
> view to my wallpapers directory, and it remembers it. Everywhere else
> i use details view as it shows me the file type, size, last modified
> and other useful info what i need to manage with my files).
> 
> If the thumbnails are used as file icons (mime icons), then the icons
> should be large to recognize what file it is(and still usually are
> they too small to recognize what file it is). And then if i had a lot
> of files in one direcotory - it would be really hard to manage with
> them.
> 
> So i think, by default, it list/icon view, there should be mime icons
> as they look better in small size and are faster. But it would be nice
> to have a thumbnail view like win explorer has - so when i have a
> directory full of pictures and i want take a quick look - so i can
> change th e view. The thumbnails size is pretty good in windows - so i
> think we could take it from there :)

This would be that we need to remember the chosen view per directory. We 
can do that, no problem, just the question: Should we actually do it 
that way?

Benedikt