From kde-devel  Sun Aug 18 00:51:53 2002
From: Malte Starostik <malte () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 00:51:53 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Thumbnail generation in konqueror is buggy
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On Saturday 17 August 2002 19:18, Volker Augustin wrote:
> >> in KDE 3.0.2 the thumbnail generation in konqueror is buggy. It only
> >> generates thumbnails for some files but not for all. The ones for which
> >> thumbnails are generated are not in alphabetic
> >
> > Are you sure it's not the thumbnail size limits cutting of thumbnailing
> > for larger files?
>
> You are right. However, I first encountered the "problem" with my digital
> camera and the kamera ioslave. In case of a camera the case is a little
> different. While the slave reports the size of the pictures to konqueror,
> the thumbnails are generated by the camera hardware - in case this is
> supported by the camera - and thus very fast. So, in case of a camera
> supporting thumbnail generation, thumbnails should be created independent
> of the size of the actual image I guess. Question is where to fix this?
>
> Maybe Konqueror should have some indication of the "costs" of creating a
> thumbnail.
It should use the thumbnails provided by the camera and circumvent the usua=
l=20
thumbnailing process, including file size limits.
I'm not sure if this is already implemented (don't think so). If you know=20
anyone willing to provide me a camera with thumbnail support, I'd be happy =
to=20
implement it ;~}

=2DMalte

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