On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:20 PM, todd <tdonahue...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Having the camera app create thumbs when a photo is taken is great,
> but another common scenario has been left unanswered. What happens
> when the user inserts (or copies) images to the SD card?

I believe that the camera app or the picture galery will generate the
thumbnails outside of the file, if they are not already present.

>
> I've found that unless the Pictures app is run, no thumbs have been
> generated for the images on the SD card and I have to add the thumbs
> myself in order to display thumbnail images.

Hm, it might make sense to add this to the SD card scanner: having us
generate thumbnails automatically on scanned content.  FIle a feature
req? :)

>
> Additionally, the gallery/camera apps only create the mini version of
> the thumbnail and not the micro version. It would be great to have a
> clear, consistent policy for thumbnail generation of images that
> reside on the SD card. I can foresee apps battling over thumb
> creation, some doing it well, others not so well and using different
> (custom?) sizes for both sizes.
>
> That's my two cents.

I agree with you.   We do need a more consistent approach for this.
I'll file a bug to track this internally.

>
> Todd
> >
>

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