Re: preferences->preview->thumbnail size

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 08:14 -0500, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> "Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc avtechpulse com> writes:
> >
> > Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 12:04 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > >> Ugh. Looks tricky to fix as it uses uint. I'll change it to 2 GB and
> > >> 4GB instead.
> > >
> > > No joy.
> > >
> > > cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> > > nautilus-global-preferences.c:99: error: this decimal constant is unsigned only in ISO C90
> > > nautilus-global-preferences.c:100: error: this decimal constant is unsigned only in ISO C90
> >
> > Maybe add an "0 = unlimited" choice instead of some random large number?
> 
> Or just changing the scale to use a larger unit than individual
> *bytes*? Do we really care about being able to specify thumbnail
> size-limits under 1 kilobyte?
> 
> Alternately, it could be a logarithmic scale, which would be
> fine-grained in the kilobyte range and courser in the gigabyte range
> (because 1 kB +/- 100 bytes is significant; 1 GB +/- 100 bytes, on the
> other hand...).

I don't disagree, but that would mean changing the way a deployed
preference setting works, so it would mean either breaking old settings
or doing some contortions to handle both. I don't think its worth the
pain for either really.