[Thunar-dev] Thumbnails

[Emil Jacobs]

On 6/29/05, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> 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?
> 
> Benedikt

I also vote for this, I really liked this feature in the
WindowsExplorer and think it is very usefull to set certain
directories to the styles they fit best in (according to the end-user
ofcourse :-))