On Apr 7, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Alexander Murashko wrote: > 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.
I could imagine that it might be helpful to have a 4-way toggle between no thumbnails, thumbnails on right, thumbnails on the bottom, or full-screen thumbnails. > 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. Threads -- there only "waiting" should be to see the thumbnails themselves. All other functionality on the currently-viewed image (or the ability to go forward or backwards) should not wait for thumbnails to be loaded. I suspect that the time to read images from disk/network will be the bottleneck, not the resizing. -- Larry Gritz [email protected] _______________________________________________ Oiio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org
