On 12/26/2009 10:07 PM, Wojciech Muła wrote: > Hi all! > > Single thumbnail file is quite small, but when we have bunch of them > it could be a problem; recently I discovered, that size of my > .thumbnails directory was 2GB. > > I've tested very simple method to reduce size of thumb pngs - before > save a file, n lower bits of each pixel component is reset. Of course > this cause lost of some information, but thumbnails are just... > thumbnails, and I think it is not problem for anyone. My quick tests > with patched geeqie show significant reduction of size: > for n=3 - 20-30% less, for n=4 - 40-50%.
Is this really worth it? For one, this runs the risk of destroying a significant amount of the image content for images that are fairly dark. Beyond that, though, the difference between a 1GB and a 2GB .thumbnails directory is pretty small, in practice. If the size of the directory is an issue, the answer is probably to do something that will maintain some certain maximum directory size, rather than hurting the quality of each and every thumbnail with no practical way to prevent the .thumbnails directory size from continuing to grow. Finally, I imagine the thumbnail storage paradigm will probably change once folks start moving geeqie over to a database backend. --xsdg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
