I want to tell you my opinion in the problem of the thumbnails in IV. If I'm working on a big widescreen display I may want to see them in the simple panel at the right side or in a separate resizable window. But if my monitor has low resolution, I may want to turn the thumbnails off. The size of thumbnails also often depends on a monitor resolution and a task I want to solve. Therefore it would be the right decision to give a choice of thumbnails geometry options to the user.
Also in that light there is another important problem. For example I'm going to find one photo with important information quickly. I copy 100 photos to my computer from the camera. Each image consists of 12 megapixels. Then I'm opening a folder with photos in image viewer. And I have to wait a lot of time until the program parses all the images and creates thumbnails. If this viewer uses some simple (bilinear) algorithm it's needed to work up 1.2 billion of pixels (3.6 GB of data)! I consider it's not serious. The program unreasonably wastes user's time. Not long ago I have been starting researches in the issue of quick thumbnails generation for mobile devices. Unfortunately that task was canceled. But I know surely that this problem is important and it needs specialized algorithm. Perhaps it's even more significant problem than thumbnails layout. Alexander.
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