Re: Confused about nautilus thumbnails

[Christian Kirbach <christian kirbach googlemail com>]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:57:40 +0400, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>  
wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 12:21 +1100, Nyall wrote:


> > - Else, if the nautilus icon size > 128, then create a 256 sized
> > thumbnail, save it in the .thumbnails/large directory, and resize it up
> > or down to fit the nautilus icon size.

> We could add support for 256x256 thumbnails, but I don't know how useful
> this would be, icons of that size are rather unusual.

Unusual, that is true. But sizes matching 128x128 <= size <= 256x256 are  
more likely
the smaller it gets, and that is where 256x256 thumbnails boost quality.
I like the approach Nyall suggests. Which in turn does not mean that I am  
capable of implementing
it :)

Regards
--
Christian Kirbach
Christian Kirbach googlemail com