Re: Thumbnail Bar

Hello,

Thumbnail Bar:
-- Tested new "smooth scroll" feature. That's nice but only with
increased scroll duration time  = 800ms or so, with 250ms value
centering is instant on my system.

-- What do you think about Fish Eye effect? Personally I don't think
that fish eye is a good idea.
Probably making just one picture a little bigger (selected / hovered)?

-- About resizing thumbnails. Do you think it is needed?
About making view resizable as mentioned in one of comments in your blog:
"drag the edge of the thumbnail bar to resize it, and have all
thumbnails all grow or shrink accordingly".
Maybe not the edge of the bar, but the edge of a thumbnail. But that
is not obvious too.
It also can be a slider, but don't know where it can be placed. Maybe
hidden vertical one on left or right side of the bar?
Or somehow use thumbnail size of browse view?

-- Also found wish to remove "vertical dividing lines between the
pictures". Since style sheets is used, probably we can look for
external file and it exists try to load style sheet from it instead of
making one. So anyone can style thumbnails and the view as he wants.

Maybe that looks like an attempt to satisfy everyone and all of this
should be just leaved as is...


Fullscreen UI:
-- Do you think that next and previous buttons are still needed, when
it's possible to just click on thumbnail?

-- Information label causes resize of the bar when it becomes to
large. And resizing looks ugly...
I think eliding file names in that case could.
Word wrapping could help too -- two lines of text is not a problem
IMHO, since there are lot of unused vertical space anyway.

--
Ilya Konkov

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