Re: [Nautilus-list] Thumbnails of large images (and some misc. Nautilus opinions)

[Matthew Walton <mxw00u Cs Nott AC UK>]

I agree. After much hassle, sweat and recompiling of most of GNOME 
(although I did end up using 1.4rc1 which I rather like) I finally got 
Nautilus working today. It really does look out of place when browsing a 
directory full of images which might be for a website - one such 
directory I was viewing contained a quantity of JPEG images - for each 
image there was also a thumbnail version of it. All of those thumbnail 
images were displayed without borders, which made the directory look 
rather odd.

Also, I noticed that when I increase the size of an image thumbnail, the 
image isn't re-read and the thumbnail regenerated at a higher 
resolution, but rather the original is smooth-scaled up to the new size. 
This is horrendously slow (any speedups in the works by any chance?) and 
looks quite, quite terrible.

In general I like Nautilus, although it would be nice if the filetypes 
worked properly. I set up a MIME type for LyX files, set the default 
action to open them in Lyx, and lo and behold, when I double-click on 
them Nautilus says it has no internal viewer capable of handling them. I 
know! That's why I want them to open in LyX when I double-click on them! 
Just a little niggle.

Not so little is the lack of a delete command, as I believe others have 
mentioned.

Jason Tackaberry wrote:

> I noticed that Nautilus will not generate thumbnails of images over 1MB
> in size.  I work with a large number of large images (2-10MB each), and
> I'd like the ability to be able to view thumbnails for these as well.
> Is this configurable somewhere, or is the limit currently hardcoded?
>
> I also see that Nautilus won't generate thumbnails for images under a
> certain size (15kb or so), and that it just creates the thumbnail
> directly from the image on the fly.  The problem with this is that the
> thumbnail doesn't have the anti-aliased border and it looks a bit out of
> place.  Is there a way to disable this as well?