I was wondering if there is a good use case where square thumbnails are needed in the first place. They are easy to work with and I liked iPhoto and Photofloat that used them, but I agree something like the web UI would be far superior.
On Saturday, January 21, 2017 at 1:05:56 AM UTC+1, mpl wrote: > > wait, why do we need anything new on the server-side, since the web UI is > already capable of doing this job pretty well? Why can't the publisher code > be improved to do the same thing the web UI does? What am I missing? > > > On 20 January 2017 at 08:47, Attila Tajti <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 2:01:52 AM UTC+1, mpl wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 17 January 2017 at 18:28, Attila Tajti <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Btw, the thumbnails in the publisher show up with an incorrect aspect >>>> ratio (apparently the image is streched into a square shape) but >>>> standalone >>>> images appear fine. Is there anything I can do about it? >>>> >>> >>> Yeah, I did the very minimum amount of math for the thumbs. >>> You can: >>> 1) as usual file an issue :-) (but that probably won't be in my >>> priorities, sorry) >>> 2) fix the code at app/publisher/js/members.go. Aaron had done it pretty >>> well for the web UI (I'm still seeing some bugs if I mix images with very >>> different sizes though), so that might be the way to go for inspiration. >>> >>> >> >> For square thumbnails to work thumbnail images are needed with proper >> size (i.e. cropped to 200x200px), perhaps with new query parameters cw and >> ch (crop width/height) on the server. >> >> The cropping could alternatively be done in the browser, but then an >> image should be proportionally scaled so that (width >= 200px && height >= >> 200px && (height == 200px || width == 200px)). Then the server would need >> store bits of the image that are never shown, therefore it would be better >> to have it cropped on the server side >> >> The handler would scale the image until either (scaledwidth == cw && >> scaledheight >= ch) or (scaledheight == ch || scaledwidth >= cw) is true, >> crop the top/bottom or left/right sides of it so that the thumb will have >> the exact dimensions cw × ch. >> >> WDYT? >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Camlistore" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Camlistore" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
