Auto-generate album thumbs

Hi,

I created a private GIT branch where I test the feature "autoThumbs".
If you have many albums, it becomes quite annoying to set an icon for every
album.

With this patch you can auto-generate album icons. For this, the first item of
every album is read and set as the album thumbnail.

Thumbnails that have been already set will not be overwritten of course.
It works quite will here, but I'm not sure if everything has been setup
correctly.

What do you think? Maybe we should also remove the context menu action "Reset
Album Icon" when the autoThumbs option is set?
Because right now this action will set the first item of an album as the
current thumbnail. This is because we reset the icon, the thumbloader
recognizes this and because of autoThumbs, sets the icon automatically again.

Another way to use this: create a global action, so the user can decide when
to auto-generate those thumbs.

Marcel,

do you see any problems with the albumthumbloader here?

Andi



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This is another patch, allowing the auto creation of thumbs for albums by two
types:
First Item - Use the first item as album thumbnail
Random Item - Well, use a random item from this album :-)

What do you think, you have not answered yet. Is this feature worth
implementing? If you ask me, YES :-)

If not, please tell me, before I might continue working on this.
I started this as some users complained, but now I actually really like it.

It could be improved though, I'm sure.

Andi

On Tuesday 16 June 2009 14:10:05 Andi Clemens wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I created a private GIT branch where I test the feature "autoThumbs".
> If you have many albums, it becomes quite annoying to set an icon for every
> album.
>
> With this patch you can auto-generate album icons. For this, the first item
> of every album is read and set as the album thumbnail.
>
> Thumbnails that have been already set will not be overwritten of course.
> It works quite will here, but I'm not sure if everything has been setup
> correctly.
>
> What do you think? Maybe we should also remove the context menu action
> "Reset Album Icon" when the autoThumbs option is set?
> Because right now this action will set the first item of an album as the
> current thumbnail. This is because we reset the icon, the thumbloader
> recognizes this and because of autoThumbs, sets the icon automatically
> again.
>
> Another way to use this: create a global action, so the user can decide
> when to auto-generate those thumbs.
>
> Marcel,
>
> do you see any problems with the albumthumbloader here?
>
> Andi

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On Monday 29 June 2009 20:09:21 Andi Clemens wrote:

> What do you think, you have not answered yet. Is this feature worth
> implementing? If you ask me, YES :-)
>

I seem to remember digikam being able to do this way back went and I miss it
now so +1 from me.

D.

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Since nobody else seems to have something to say about this (although I think
it is really useful), I will add it as a wish to BKO now.

Andi

On Monday 29 June 2009 21:09:21 Andi Clemens wrote:

> This is another patch, allowing the auto creation of thumbs for albums by
> two types:
> First Item - Use the first item as album thumbnail
> Random Item - Well, use a random item from this album :-)
>
> What do you think, you have not answered yet. Is this feature worth
> implementing? If you ask me, YES :-)
>
> If not, please tell me, before I might continue working on this.
> I started this as some users complained, but now I actually really like it.
>
> It could be improved though, I'm sure.
>
> Andi
>
> On Tuesday 16 June 2009 14:10:05 Andi Clemens wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I created a private GIT branch where I test the feature "autoThumbs".
> > If you have many albums, it becomes quite annoying to set an icon for
> > every album.
> >
> > With this patch you can auto-generate album icons. For this, the first
> > item of every album is read and set as the album thumbnail.
> >
> > Thumbnails that have been already set will not be overwritten of course.
> > It works quite will here, but I'm not sure if everything has been setup
> > correctly.
> >
> > What do you think? Maybe we should also remove the context menu action
> > "Reset Album Icon" when the autoThumbs option is set?
> > Because right now this action will set the first item of an album as the
> > current thumbnail. This is because we reset the icon, the thumbloader
> > recognizes this and because of autoThumbs, sets the icon automatically
> > again.
> >
> > Another way to use this: create a global action, so the user can decide
> > when to auto-generate those thumbs.
> >
> > Marcel,
> >
> > do you see any problems with the albumthumbloader here?
> >
> > Andi

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