Exactly. The square thumbnails with rounded edges in publisher seemed like 
an artistic/design choice, so I tried to keep them. :)


On Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 2:34:26 PM UTC+1, mpl wrote:
>
> ah, I get it I think. You were trying to see if we could fix things while 
> still keeping only square thumbnails?
>
>
> On 24 January 2017 at 08:29, Attila Tajti <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> 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]> 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?
>>>>  
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