Re: [Gimp-developer] Feature request: Improve the Open file dialog thumbnails

[gfxuser <gfx user online de>]

Am 18.05.12 09:33, schrieb Ryan Johnson:

Hi Ryan,

I checked your complaints with GIMP 2.8 with the following results:
> 1. Raise the file size limit for autogeneration of thumbnails.
> Many of my JPEGs are just slightly over 3 MB or whatever the small 
> current limit is. Many of my RAW NEF files are just /under/ 10 MB, at 
> a resolution of 10.2 Megapixels. Many dSLR's exceed my camera's 
> resolution, so my recommended upper limit is 20 MB, but doing a 
> progressive scan (priority queue) would work best. Start out with 
> anything under 5 MB, then 10, then 20 MB, so it is a rough priority 
> queue, instead of a fine-grain one.
There is a solution for you in the preferences dialog. Goto 
Edit/Preferences/Environment pane. In the middle of the right side you 
will find the option 'Maximum filesizes for thumbnailing'. That's your 
friend.
> 2. Allow users to multiselect files and explicitly batch-generate 
> thumbnails (just clicking on the thumbnail placeholder with multiple 
> images selected should initiate the process).
Have you already tried this? I just did: multiselected files in the list 
of the 'open file' dialog, clicked on 'Click to create preview' in the 
right pane - and GIMP just created thumbnails for the selected files. 
Cool, isn't it? ;-)

Alexandre wrote:
> > 3. Use the native "Open file" dialog.
> and
>
> > Bigger Goal:
> > Improve the "Open file" dialog to include other viewing modes besides a
> > detail list. It's a graphics program after all! Appeal to the senses!
> are mutually exclusive on Windows.

I wouldn't say that. On Windows 7 the native 'open file' dialog contains 
different views: list, details, symbols in various sizes, tiles. Symbols 
and tiles contain a preview of every file. IIRC it was similar with 
Windows XP. I think, that's what the OP wants.
IMHO using native dialogs has one mantrap: they need to be checked first 
whether they can fulfill all requirements of the application, like a 
thumbnail preview. Not every platform may offer all necessary 
possibilities and keeping track of this could be a hard work. I like the 
way of the Mac version: there's a 'Show in Finder' menu item in the file 
dialog, which will start the platforms file manager.

Best regards,

grafxuser