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Add a new option in Preferences > Filtering to allow the
user to choose to display '.' directory in folder lists or not.
This option is saved to rc file as file_filter.show_dot_directory.
A minor fix was made to disable display of .. in folder selection
dialogs when current path is /.
author | zas_ |
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date | Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:36:11 +0000 |
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <TITLE>Thumbnails - GQview User Manual</TITLE> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 (Linux)"> <META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20040805;23590500"> <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20050131;9432500"> </HEAD> <BODY LANG="en-US" DIR="LTR"> <CENTER> <TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=4 CELLSPACING=0 STYLE="page-break-before: always"> <COL WIDTH=85*> <COL WIDTH=85*> <COL WIDTH=85*> <THEAD> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P><A HREF="11_2_keyboard_shortcuts.html">Previous</A></P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=CENTER>Thumbnails - Reference</P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=RIGHT><A HREF="11_4_management.html">Next</A></P> </TD> </TR> </THEAD> </TABLE> </CENTER> <HR> <H1>11.3 Thumbnails</H1> <P STYLE="text-decoration: none"><I>Note: This page only refers the GQview thumbnail caching mechanism, the shared thumbnail cache mechanism is not explained here.</I></P> <P><U>Format</U></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">Thumbnails are stored in PNG image format. The thumbnail name is the name of the source image with “.png” appended.</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">The modification time (mtime) of the thumbnail is set to match the source file. Thumbnails are regenerated when the timestamps of the thumbnail and source file do not match.</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><BR><BR> </P> <P><U>Location</U></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">Thumbnails are stored in:</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.58in">($HOME)/.gqview/thumbnails</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">The directory structure of the thumbnail cache duplicates the location of the source files, for example a source file with the name:</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.58in">/path/to/image.jpg</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">will store the thumbnail in:</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.58in">($HOME)/.gqview/thumbnails/path/to/image.jpg.png</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">When thumbnails are to be stored local to the source file, the thumbnail will be placed in:</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.58in">/path/to/.thumbnails/image.jpg.png</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">Local thumbnail caching is enabled with the option “Cache thumbnails into .thumbnails” on the <A HREF="10_1_general.html">General</A> tab of the options dialog. If it is not possible to store the thumbnail local to the source file (usually due to no write permissions), GQview will fall back to saving the thumbnail in the user's ($HOME)/.gqview/thumbnails folder.</P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P><U>Size</U></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">GQview allows the following sizes for thumbnails:</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.58in">24x24, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64, 96x72, 96x96, 129x96, 128x128, 160x120, 160x160, 192x144, 192x192, 256x192, 256x256</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">The thumbnail is scaled to fit within the preferred size maintaining the aspect ratio. Thumbnails are not cached for images that are equal to or smaller than the preferred thumbnail size.</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">When a cached thumbnail's width and height do not match the preferred size, the thumbnail is regenerated.</P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <HR> <CENTER> <TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=4 CELLSPACING=0> <COL WIDTH=85*> <COL WIDTH=85*> <COL WIDTH=85*> <THEAD> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P><A HREF="11_2_keyboard_shortcuts.html">Previous</A></P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="index.html">Contents</A></P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=RIGHT><A HREF="11_4_management.html">Next</A></P> </TD> </TR> </THEAD> <TBODY> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P><BR> </P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=CENTER><BR> </P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=RIGHT>GQview User Manual</P> </TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> </CENTER> <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR> </P> </BODY> </HTML>