Re: Thumbnails Pane

["Lucas Rocha" <lucasr at mundo gmail com>]

Hi Felix,

> Am Samstag, den 25.11.2006, 03:11 +0200 schrieb Lucas Rocha:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've just commited some changes to the thumbnails pane. Now it uses
> > the navigator widget which makes it easier to scroll and view the
> > image collection. Some pending issues on thumbnails pane:
> I am not sure what I should think of it yet. The problem I have is that
> I don't see the real benefit in it, besides of smoother scrolling, and
> it looks quite strange (possibly because of the buttons). Maybe it's
> just too obvious to me. :)

I thought the benefits were obvious. :-) You can scroll the image
collection without needing to drag the scrollbar handle to a specific
position. Pressing a button is much simpler than draging a handle when
you just want to have a look at the image collection. But yes, some
more feedback is need and I'll blog about it to see what I get.

> > - The side buttons have too small arrows. We try to use some icons.
> > However, I don't want it to be too thick. Suggestions?
> >
> > - The current shadow effect look nice only on images with colored
> > background. On small images (i.e icons, cliparts) with transparent
> > background the shadow looks strange. Try viewing /usr/share/pixmaps
> > and you'll see what I mean. EOG should use the same shadow style than
> > nautilus because we'd have more consistency and better thumbnail
> > appearance (for any kind of image). I'll experiment this and see how
> > it looks.
> >
> > - Better selection visual feedback. The default GtkIconView selection
> > visual feedback is not very nice because only the label (which we
> > won't use in thumbnails pane) is really marked when selected and the
> > icon just gets a like bit darker. Suggestions?
>
> We should keep an option to re-enable the file labels as it is hard to
> identify your images if you are looking at a bunch of nearly identical
> images.

IMHO, filenames in the context the EOG thumbnail pane is not a central
part of it. The plan is to add tolltips to the thumbnails for quick
checking the filename if needed. But I don't think they should appear
in the pane. Any strong argument against it?

> > For now, those are the issues I'd to discuss.
> I found another possible one:
>
> - It seems to have a redrawing issue when several images change at once
> and the widget size changes. I was not yet able to fully explore the
> issue so this is a rough explanation. It showed up when I tested my
> EogJobSave patch on multiple images. But it's not showing up everytime.

I haven't seen any size change on my tests. When you commit EogJobSave
I'll do more tests. Of course, you can fix any issue you encounter
anytime. :-)

--lucasr