Re: Confused about nautilus thumbnails

[Nyall <nyall zombiepigs net>]

> 
> Yes, nautilus only ever uses the 128x128 thumbnails. For actual images
> we use the file itself as the thumbnail whenever an icon is scaled
> larger than 128 pixels (since nautilus 2.22). This does not work for
> things that require a thumbnailer.
Ok, that explains a lot of things, including this bug report:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523883


> 
> We could add support for 256x256 thumbnails, but I don't know how useful
> this would be, icons of that size are rather unusual.
Well... anytime the zoom in nautilus is set to 150% or higher, the icons
will be larger than 128 pixels. Wouldn't it make sense to create the
large 256 pix thumbnail when > 100% zoom, and then resize it down to the
icon size, rather than resizing the 128 pix thumbnail up? That way we'd
follow the fdo spec more closely, and large zoom sizes will look good!

If you think it sound reasonable/desirable, I'm willing to try my hand
at a patch that'll implement this. But if there's something wrong with
my logic, or if there's no chance of getting something like this
implemented in nautilus, I'd rather know beforehand :P