Re: GWorkspace - thumbnail service problems

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Charles Philip Chan wrote:
>         1. Missing thumbnails to be auto- generated when entering a
>            directory like any other file manager.
>
>         2. Allow much bigger sizes. 48x48 max size previews doesn't
>            really cut it, especially for photos.
I think that going beyond 64x64 will be hard because that is our icon 
size and the grid view supports that. I will try adding 64 support, 
perhaps at the expense of some strange sizes like "44".. strange to have 
so many intermediate sizes. Half of the image gets b&w... apparently 
just in certain Images.
Opening them in PRICE shows them fine, that is GS code loads them correctly.

That is more stringent, since it is a bug... but why certain images and 
not, this will need debugging.

A bigger problem is that certain images get artifacts while being 
resized.. some work some not. The same error can be seen in the 
"contents inspector" so I think there is a general code issue.

Another question is... the thumbnails are saved as tiffs. I wonder if it 
is better to switch to JPG: or the thumbnail database will get really 
large? Or go the extra effort to put an option?

Riccardo