Re: [PATCH] Frame large images with a small file size.

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 23:11 +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Say I have an image on my desktop. The file is 500k, so its thumbnailed.
> > I didn't do anything to the icon, so its showed at 96 pixels size, from
> > the thumbnail.
> > 
> > Now I select "Stretch Icon" from the menu and make the icon 200x200
> > pixels. If we continue to use the thumbnail for this it'll look pretty
> > fuzzy. What I would like is for it to switch to using the actual file as
> > the thumbnail for sizes > 128 pixels. This would make the icon look
> > crisp and nice.
> 
> OK I got it, but if I zoom in the thumbnail size also gets larger then 
> 128. Nautilus would become very slow for people using a high zoom level. :-(

I guess. Maybe we could first read the thumbnails and use those, and
then read the real files in the background while displaying the folder?

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