Re: Thumbnails Pane

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

Hey,

> On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 03:11 +0200, Lucas Rocha wrote:
> > 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 just took a quick look at it. It looks nice, but I think that the
> scrolling needs acceleration. For large image collections it is a bit
> difficult to browse using the navigator's bar.

What do you mean with acceleration? Scrolling quicker or scrolling
longer when pressing side buttons? Keyboard accelerators?

> > - 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.
>
> Other problem I see with it is that it sucks a lot of CPU on generating
> the shadows. I sysprof'd it under big stress and the CPU consumption of
> thumbnailing is mostly during the cycles which create the shadows. Don't
> know how does nautilus shadows behave with this, but the fact that
> nautilus create the shadows only when loading the window and not in a
> lazy-loading way like eog, relieves a lot.

Yes, you're right. I'm just trying to find a lighter way to generate
(maybe simpler) shadows. If it continues to suck, we stay with the
good old solid 1px black border. ;-)

Cheers!

--lucasr