[dev] Ansel thumbnail choices?

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael Rubinsky <mike at theupstairsroom.com>:

>
> 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.

I agree with Mike fwiw.

Jan.

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