Thumbnails management

[lulsam]

Started on: 2007-03-23
Last update: 2007-03-23

Summary:

Couple of things to speed up and improve the thumbnails management in My Pictures

Description:

First time a pictures folder is accessed, MP creates thumbnails in Thumbs\Pictures subfolder to speed up some viewing modes like "icons", big "icons" and "slide". Two interesting points here:

• The quality of the thumbs is controlled in MP Setup in General -> Thumbnails
• That's fine for pictures (files) but folders follow a different approach: Thumbnails have to be created manually within MP by pushing the button create thumbnails in the left menu. This action creates a hidden file named folder.jpg for each one (notice that regular windows explorer can display the thumbs for directories as well in "thumbnails mode" => great). Two issues here:
  

• The "folder thumbs" are not cached in the Thumbs\Pictures subfolder as the ones for files => I think they should be, specially valuable for those like me that are using a file server to store the media files => MP improvement
• While viewing directories in "list mode" the thumbs are displayed and I think they only should be displayed in the other viewing modes (icons, big icons and slide) like happens with the picture files, and following exactly the same bahaviour of windows explorer. In my opinion this seems to be a MP bug / improvement suggestion

Further details, and how I have got this ideas comes from another post: http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/pe....html?p=137672

Best regards