JJZolx;661349 Wrote:
> Are thumbnails really even necessary for images? I would think most
> people are going to be a) usually viewing images in some sort of
> slide-show mode, and b) very seldom browsing through the image
> library.
>
I think there are three primary use cases:
1. Find a specific image which you like to show a friend
2. Show a predefined slide show which you have prepared in advance
3. Continuously show random images from your photo library
For 1 you definitely need thumbnails but my feeling is that most people
are just going to use a computer instead for this use case because it's
so much faster with the limited support for categorization that exists
in LMS.
For 2 and 3 no thumbnails are needed, but 2 needs some kind of image
playlist support which currently doesn't exist. Ideally 3 needs some
kind of categorization support because typically I'm still going to
want to limit it to high quality images.
But I still think removing thumbnails would be a bad idea because the
typical demo scenario, even if it's rarely going to be used in reality,
is going to be to show how you can browse through your photo library and
view a specific image. However, maybe it would be possible to make the
thumbnail generation optional, so you can select to turn it of if you
are only interested in viewing images as pre-defined or random slide
shows.
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