Re: .jpg thumbnailing

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 16:27 +0200, Kotrla Vitezslav wrote:
>
> > I was thinking about this one before, but just today found courage
> > to ask. It seems like Nautilus is using two different approaches
> > to thumbnailing .jpg pictures. Please see attached file, paying 
> > attention to different thumbnail sizes.
> >
> > I just wonder what is the reason behind and how can I get consistent
> > thumbnailing [I prefer the nice bordered and shadowed one :-)]
>
>
> This is for all files. Very small files are not thumbnailed, but instead
> the file itself is used as the thumbnail. This very often happens for
> icons, which are typically not rectangular, so dropshades would look
> bad.
>
> I guess the best fix would be to actually calculate real dropshadows.

I filed two bugs related to this sometime ago

"Images of the same size are displayed with a different size in the preview"
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153073

"Do not scale up small images in icon view"
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153072

Jaap