From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: thumbs.el and transparency Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:05:19 +0100 Message-ID: References: <17366.53124.274532.548329@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <87y814vhxj.fsf@jurta.org> <17367.17105.271024.157799@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <17369.17978.521026.397616@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <878xspwnjm.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139177159 4874 80.91.229.2 (5 Feb 2006 22:05:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 22:05:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 05 23:05:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F5s16-0003m5-Nz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:05:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F5s4N-0007Cg-G1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:09:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F5s4B-0007CT-1d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:09:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F5s47-0007CE-AT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:09:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F5s47-0007CB-6f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:09:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1F5s3Y-0001No-HA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 17:08:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1F5s0j-0003iQ-KX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:05:33 +0100 Original-Received: from 1-1-3-38a.gml.gbg.bostream.se ([82.182.110.147]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:05:33 +0100 Original-Received: from brakjoller by 1-1-3-38a.gml.gbg.bostream.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:05:33 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 1-1-3-38a.gml.gbg.bostream.se User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3V7aULHQjy6dMWYSWghi9GWs0Cg= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:50059 Archived-At: Juri Linkov writes: > This can be very easily done with iimage.el, i.e. just open a dired > buffer and type M-x iimage-mode RET and you will see, for example: Oh? I didn't even know about iimage.el. > After that, images get added before the file name part in the dired > buffer like: Cool! > This is much better, but still doesn't work for large images. This can be > improved with another fix: Even cooler! :) > This function generates thumbnail files exactly as specified by the > Thumbnail Managing Standard. It constructs the thumbnail filename, > fills all required attributes, resizes the image, removes EXIF data > and uses -type TrueColorMatte to force the encoder to write an > alpha channel as specified by the standard. I think this function > should be adopted for all Emacs thumbnail packages. > > Given that, the result on large files will look like: > > Isn't this nice? I think it is. For directories with a large amount of images, this simply does not work, I just tried. Other than that, I like the idea really much and did never think it was that easy to do. Personally, I do not like the larger size of the thumbnail files used by the Thumbnail Managing Standard although I like standards. I'll play some with this. Thanks!