Re: Nautilus View / Listeners compared with Windows Namespace extension questions

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 12:27, Mads Villadsen wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 12:08, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > * Take over thumbnailing (so as to generate better quality thumbnails
> > > for larger icons).
> > 
> > Hmm, not sure what you mean by this? If you think the Nautilus
> > thumbnailing is bad, shouldn't we just fixing it? I'm don't get this
> > point.
> 
> Maybe. What I mean is that Nautilus makes one thumbnail per file, and
> when you strecth an icon (or zoom in) the thumbnail gets blurred.

Nautilus uses the freedesktop.org thumbnail standard, which means normal
thumbnails have a size of 128x128 (which is then downscaled to the used
size). I'm not sure larger thumbnails make much sense, but the standard
does allow you to use 256x256 thumbnails in the "large" directory.

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