[dev] Ansel thumbnail choices?

[Michael Rubinsky]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting Michael Rubinsky <mike at theupstairsroom.com>:
>
>> 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  :)
>
> Also seems like for any gallery, you'd just need to generate one
> "pretty" and one fallback thumbnail, right? Having multiple kinds of
> pretty thumbs doesn't seem necessary to me.


Well, that was what I was questioning.  My thought was that in the  
future I could see allowing the user to choose from different styles  
of prettythumbs.  The rounded, shadowed one that's currently in there,  
plus any number of other styles.  In particular I was thinking of a  
Polaroid-style thumb with a larger bottom border where we could  
overlay the image title onto the image.

If we *do* allow choices for different pretty thumbs, then the issue  
becomes having to regenerate the pretty thumbs whenever the user  
changes styles....and how to track internally when that needs to be  
done...probably another field in the (yet to be created) gallery  
table.  My thought was that if we're not going to have a *lot* of  
choices, then it makes sense to keep any generated images.  Not a big  
deal though if you think it would be overloading the vfs.


Thanks,
mike

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