Re: thumbnails vs scaled images

Per Bothner wrote:
> 
> Like a lot of people, I have some scripts to generate
> web pages from my pictures.  For example:
> http://pics.bothner.com/2004/SierraAzulHikeFeb/index.html
> 
> I've played around with gqview, and it seems nice for initial
> categorization and renaming.  But once I've done that I want to
> run my scripts, which generates scaled images and html files.
> Then the directory has a mix of the original images and scaled
> images (web-page-sized upto 740x740 and thumbnails upto 240x240),
> at which point using gqview (or another image brower) becomes
> more klunky.
> 
> It also seems wasteful for gqview to generate it own set of thumbnails
> that just duplicate the thumbnails (240x180 or 180x240) that I
> generate for the overview web page.

If an image is larger than the resulting thumbnail then the thumbnail will be
cached (using the shared thumbnail option will result in no saved thumbs for
images smaller than 128x128 - or 256x256 if your thumbnail size in GQview is set
above 128x128).

> The former problem can be partially solved by moving scaled images
> to subdirectories, but it would be nice if gqview would know that
> the scaled images are just that.

How? All image files are the same to GQview just like all files are the same to
the ls command. GQview will only ignore them if they are:

  a) someplace else
    (subfolder, best design IMHO)

  b) do not have an extension that GQview recognizes
    (impractical)

  c) a hidden file, and hidden files are disabled in GQview
    (probably not very practical for a web album)

  d) still visible, but listed last or grouped with a common prefix
    (the thumbnail filename starts with a zz or something, and this does not
avoid creating thumbnails of your scaled images when GQview enters the folder).


> So I'm not asking specifically for gqview to natively support my setup.
> However, it would be nice if we could work out a set of conventions
> to make it more convenient to manage web albums as well as raw photo
> collections.  Or am I using the wrong tool - should I be using something
> else?

Depends on what you want to be able to do from within GQview. It can already do
the basics: view images and run shell scripts on them. Please be specific in the
tasks you feel GQview is lacking.


Greetings,
John

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