[Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

[Mathias Brodala]

Hello Benedikt.

Benedikt Meurer, 31.12.2006 15:37:
> Mathias Brodala wrote:
>>> Right now Thunar scales down
>>> the 640x480 preview, which is not the optimal result for a webpage (IMHO).
>> Well, then you could let the scaling be done via ImageMagick. This way you could
>> optimize the thumbnail a bit (sharpening, …). Everything could go into a shell
>> script and be used as the thumbnailer’s wrapper.
> 
> The scaling is not the problem. Thunar does that very good and very
> fast.

Good to know. Faster than calling convert/mogrify?

> The real problem is that thumbnailing a webpage at 640x480 does
> not yield good results for many webpages. Some may require more space,
> some less.

OK, now I understand. I think you can go with 800×600 as thumbnails size. The
more the slower, I guess.

> Therefore some magic may be required to detect this.

If only Opera had an interface for this. (It’s „Fit to width“ feature is perfect
for this.)


Regards, Mathias

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