Re: PATCH: Thumbnail Settings

[Boris de Laage de Meux <emak free fr>]

What if the thumbnails were generated only for the 'on screen' files
(and a few more for a smoother scrolling) ?


Le mer 19/02/2003 à 15:03, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) a écrit :
> What if the option to limit thumbnailing were changed from size to time 
> taken to thumbnail things?  It would work like this: the thumbnailing 
> algorithm could sort files based on size, and begin thumbnailing the 
> smaller ones first, then, as the bigger ones begin to be thumbnailed, if 
> any (three|five|ten) things take more than say 5 seconds each to be 
> thumbnailed, automatically stop thumbnailing stuff.  This could also be 
> split for each media type (audio,video,image).