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22 <P ALIGN=CENTER>General - Options Explained</P>
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32 <H1>10.1 General Options</H1>
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33 <P>This section describes the options presented under the General Tab
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34 of the preferences dialog.</P>
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35 <P><BR><BR>
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36 </P>
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37 <P><U>Startup</U></P>
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38 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Change to folder</B>: Enabling this
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39 will cause GQview to initially open to the specified folder.</P>
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40 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Use Current</B>: Activate this
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41 button to change the setting to the current folder.</P>
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43 <DD STYLE="margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.2in"><BR><BR>
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44 </DD></DL>
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45 <P>
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46 <U>Thumbnails</U></P>
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47 <DL>
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48 <DL>
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49 <DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none"><B>Size</B>:
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50 Selects the size of the thumbnails displayed throughout GQview,
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51 dimensions are width by height in pixels.</DD><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none">
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52 <B>Quality</B>: Selects the method to use when scaling an image
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53 down for thumbnails.</DD></DL>
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54 </DL>
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55 <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.58in">
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56 <B>Nearest</B>: Fastest scaler, but results in poor thumbnail
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57 quality.<BR><B>Tiles</B>: Thumbnail results are very close to
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58 bilinear, with better speed.<BR><B>Bilinear</B>: High quality
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59 results, moderately fast.<BR><B>Hyper</B>: Slowest scaler, sometimes
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60 gives better results than bilinear.</P>
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61 <DL>
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63 <DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in"><B>Cache thumbnails</B>: Enable
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64 this to save thumbnails to disk, subsequent requests for a
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65 thumbnail will be faster. Thumbnails are cached into
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66 ($HOME)/.gqview/thumbnails. Refer to <A HREF="11_3_thumbnails.html">11.3
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67 thumbnails</A> for details.</DD><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in">
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68 <B>Use shared thumbnail cache:</B> This will use a thumbnail
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69 caching method that is compatible with applications that use the
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70 standard thumbnail specification. When this option is enabled
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71 thumbnails will be stored in ($HOME)/.thumbnails</DD><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in">
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72 <B>Cache thumbnails into .thumbnails</B>: When enabled, GQview
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73 attempts to store cached thumbnails closer to the source image.
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74 This way multiple users can benefit from a single cache, thereby
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75 reducing wasted disk space. The resulting location is the source
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76 image's folder, in a sub folder with the name <B>.thumbnails</B>.
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77 When the image source folder cannot be written, GQview falls back
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78 to saving the thumbnail in the user's home folder.</DD><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none">
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79 <B>Use xvpics thumbnails when found</B>: xvpics is a common
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80 thumbnail caching format used by several applications. Thumbnails
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81 are stored locally to the source image in a sub folder with the
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82 name <B>.xvpics</B>. Enabling this option will allow GQview to read
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83 thumbnails saved in the xvpics format.</DD><DL>
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84 <DL>
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85 <DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none">
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86 <I>Note:</I> Support for xvpics is read only, GQview can not
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87 generate thumbnails in this format.</DD></DL>
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91 <P>
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92 <BR><BR>
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93 </P>
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94 <P><U>Slide show</U></P>
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95 <DL>
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96 <DL>
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97 <DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none"><B>Delay
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98 between image change</B>: Specifies the delay between images for
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99 slide shows, in seconds.</DD><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none">
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100 <B>Random</B>: When enabled, slide show images will appear in
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101 random order.</DD><DL>
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103 <DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none">
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104 <I>Note:</I> Random images are displayed such that each image
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105 appears once per cycle of all images. When the slide show repeat
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106 option is enabled, the image order is randomized after completing
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107 each cycle.</DD></DL>
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108 </DL>
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109 <DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none">
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110 <B>Repeat</B>: When enabled, slide shows will continue at the
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111 beginning after the last image is displayed.</DD></DL>
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