erland;661352 Wrote: > 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.
But do they need to be pre-cached? I can see the typical user enabling photo scanning without realizing that it's going to double or triple the overall scan time, and then browse photos very rarely. > 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. Demo scenario? Demo of what? If in reality something is used rarely, you need to balance the increased scanning time against the speed or inconvenience of generating those resized images on the fly. There's a performance pref that controls pre-caching of resized cover art for the music library. A couple of new prefs controlling pre-caching for photos and videos may be called for. Which brings up another question... What sizes of resized images are being pre-cached for videos? Nobody is going to be browsing videos in either the web UI or SqueezsePlay. -- JJZolx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90573 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
