[dev] Ansel thumbnail choices?

[Michael Rubinsky]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Michael Rubinsky <mike at theupstairsroom.com>:
>
>> Looking for some input here...I'm trying to decide if it would be a
>> good idea to allow the users to select thumbnail style on a per
>> gallery basis or not.
>>
>> I'm thinking there could be cases where users would want the older
>> style thumbnails (such as galleries that are being used as a source
>> for news articles, or for galleries that are feeding other websites
>> in  some capacity or other.  As an example, I feed a personal
>> "artsy"  black & white photography site with Ansel, and while *I*
>> don't have a  problem with the thumnails being rounded on that site,
>> I could see  cases where that would not be wanted.  So, I'm thinking
>> that if the  installation can handle pretty thumbs, we show an
>> additional pref for  each gallery to turn on or off the pretty thumbs.
>
> That sounds like a good idea. I agree that pretty thumbnails really
> make sense with photographs only, not with stuff like screen shots etc.
> Would be much easier if we don't had galleries in shares. ;-)
>
>> The other point - and this is just thinking aloud for the moment -
>> is  that (in the future) I was thinking of making available other
>> "pretty"  thumbnails to choose from, like Polaroid looking images,
>> with the  image title overlayed on the bottom white border of the
>> image. Some  issues I can forsee with this though, are how to store
>> the different  generated thumbs. Currently, we can keep an old style
>> 'thumb' view and  a newer style 'prettythumb' view to allow Ansel to
>> degrade well with  older browsers or when using jpegs.  I would be
>> hesitant to continue  introducing different views with each added
>> choice...so the only other  choice - if we wanted to do this - would
>
> Why? This doesn't sound like a too bad solution for me.

Yea, not a bad idea, I was just concerned about adding too many image  
files to the vfs.  But I guess the thumbnail file sizes are small  
enough...and there wouldn't be all *that* many different thumb styles  
to choose from  :)




Thanks,
mike

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