Re: Better looking thumbnails

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 09:49 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
>  
>
> > This was just an idea I had the other day. I would submit a request 
> > against bugzilla, but I don't know what module to file that 
> > against...thumbs for movies get generated by Totem, but what about 
> > images. Is it handled by Nautilus or gThumb, EOG?
> >
> > Since I'm generating noise anyway, I might aswell sell my idea on the 
> > mailing list.
> > Just some eyecandy to make thumbnails for images feel a bit lighter and 
> > more pleasant for the eye to rest on.
> > Just a border like good looking photos have and 1px extra shadow.
> >
> > This is what thumbnails currently look like (in 2.8) 
> > http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/currentthumbs.png
> > This is my mockup: http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/eyecandythumbs.png
> >
> > I will provide nessesary graphics if it is needed.
> >    
>
> That looks pretty nice. It uses more space though, but that is probably
> ok. It looks especially cool on photos (as its made to look like a paper
> photo), I wonder if it looks as good on other types of images?
>  
Bringing this old one up again.
I belive that in Beagle jpg-files has the photo-alike border, png-files 
don't. 99% of all jpgs are photos, and 99% of all png's is graphics. 
Perhaps that could be a solution.
- Andreas