[Thunar-dev] Thumbnails

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 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?

Yes, I think view-remembering is very useful.  There should be a way to
set the default view as well, for folders that haven't had their view
changed yet.

	-brian

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