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Bug 348133

Summary:

Would love to see thumbnails for images in navigator

Product:

[ECD] Orion

Reporter:

Boris Bokowski <bokowski>

Component:

Client

Assignee:

Susan McCourt <susan>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

Version:

unspecified

Target Milestone:

0.3 M2

Hardware:

OS:

Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)

Whiteboard:

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Description	Flags
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Description Boris Bokowski

2011-06-02 15:49:25 EDT

For browsing directories with a lot of images, it would be good if the navigator could show thumbnails, or if we had a separate page for navigating in thumbnail mode.

Comment 1 Boris Bokowski

2011-06-02 15:49:48 EDT

Created attachment 197267 [details]
case in point

Comment 2 Susan McCourt

2011-09-19 15:10:22 EDT

fixed with 4babea38b3d2711f238baed1668604d456f17564

This is a quick and dirty client-side solution.  We are simply showing a thumbnail here by sizing the image element, we still have to download the whole image.  Doing otherwise would require server side code to serve up a thumbnail.

That said, the thumbnail download doesn't delay the navigator loading, it happens afterward.  

So the feature works like this:
- if the file in the navigator is an image (we check the file extension), then thumbnails will appear instead of the file icon.
- the icon links to the "open with" for the image (so that we now include the icon in the open with link rather than just the file name)
- the thumbnail will max out at 48 x 24.  This is rather arbitrary...the sizes were chosen so that larger images don't get much taller than the default row height, and the width allows us to see more detail without the image name getting indented too far.

In the future we could add preferences to control this behavior, such as the thumbmnail maximum sizes, whether the thumbnails appear at all, etc.