RC3: Icon for embedded thumbnail

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Thu May 26, 2005 7:44 am

Hacker wrote:... Could you please draw one similar to 7, but with the small rectangle centered? Just to see how it looks.

Here's the symbol set with some more samples. 12 should be the one that you have asked for, Hacker.

For reference, images are numbered, now. 1, 2 & 4 have been substituted by other.

- The ones which I don't like: 4, 6, 10, 12
- 9 doesn't look that nice since it's not centered, 10 is too small.
- My favourite: 2 (same as 7 but filled with some grey)

Post by **xnview** » Thu May 26, 2005 7:56 am

Hacker wrote:From these choices, I also vote for 7.

Could you please draw one similar to 7, but with the small rectangle centered? Just to see how it looks.

Ok, i'll add it

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Thu May 26, 2005 8:13 am

xnview wrote:Ok, i'll add it

Please wait a bit more, Pierre. If you need a temporary one for 1.80 RC3, you can surely use 7.

Hacker · Post by **Hacker** » Thu May 26, 2005 1:01 pm

1, 7, 9 and 11 look OK.

Roman

Dreamer · Post by **Dreamer** » Thu May 26, 2005 9:56 pm

I vote for 9 or "old 2".

Try to check #7 in 1280x1024 "LCD" resolution...

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Sun May 29, 2005 8:05 am

The info symbol for embedded thumbnail is available in RC3, now.

Currently, no. "7" is used as icon.

From what I can see, the info symbol is only shown if "Use embedded thumbnail" is selected. For some reason I thought the info symbol would be a general indicator if there is an embedded thumbnail or not.

Is the way the info symbol works, now, o.k. for other people?

Lesmo16 · Post by **Lesmo16** » Sun May 29, 2005 11:23 am

Dreamer wrote:I vote for 9 or "old 2".

Try to check #7 in 1280x1024 "LCD" resolution...

Yeah, Dreamer is absolutely right!

IMO "old 2" is best, because it's without that inner frame and the thumbnail isn't sqare.

With LCD and 1280x1024 or even 1400x1050 (my notebook) the actual icon looks almost the same as one of the several "arrow icons".

Lesmo16 · Post by **Lesmo16** » Sun May 29, 2005 11:28 am

helmut wrote:From what I can see, the info symbol is only shown if "Use embedded thumbnail" is selected. For some reason I thought the info symbol would be a general indicator if there is an embedded thumbnail or not.

Is the way the info symbol works, now, o.k. for other people?

I think it works fine now.
The symbol reminds the user, that he has checked "Use embedded thumbnails" and of course they're shown.

I don't like the icon (see one post above).

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Sun May 29, 2005 12:11 pm

Lesmo16 wrote:...IMO "old 2" is best, because it's without that inner frame and the thumbnail isn't sqare.

With LCD and 1280x1024 or even 1400x1050 (my notebook) the actual icon looks almost the same as one of the several "arrow icons".

When having a second look at "old 2" it's actually not so bad. The inner, grey frame should stand for the image, but is not really needed. So I'd be happy with "old 2", too.

Post by **xnview** » Mon May 30, 2005 9:27 am

So what is the symbol that i must use?

Lesmo16 · Post by **Lesmo16** » Mon May 30, 2005 10:12 am

This one please, Pierre.
The small thumbnail isn't squared - no inner frame.

Helmut, I hope it's OK that I've used your screenshot.

Dreamer · Post by **Dreamer** » Mon May 30, 2005 2:44 pm

helmut wrote:From what I can see, the info symbol is only shown if "Use embedded thumbnail" is selected. For some reason I thought the info symbol would be a general indicator if there is an embedded thumbnail or not.

Is the way the info symbol works, now, o.k. for other people?

I suggest to display:

- grey symbol if there is embedded thumbnail and "Use embedded thumbnail" is disabled
- black symbol if there is embedded thumbnail and "Use embedded thumbnail" is enabled

and of course:
- no symbol if there is no embedded thumbnail, even when "Use embedded thumbnail" is enabled

Olive · Post by **Olive** » Tue May 31, 2005 2:55 am

Lesmo16 wrote:
Dreamer wrote:I vote for 9 or "old 2".

Try to check #7 in 1280x1024 "LCD" resolution...
Yeah, Dreamer is absolutely right!

IMO "old 2" is best, because it's without that inner frame and the thumbnail isn't sqare.

With LCD and 1280x1024 or even 1400x1050 (my notebook) the actual icon looks almost the same as one of the several "arrow icons".

Sorry I don't see why it shouldn't be a square? A rectangle inside a square looks wrong because the image and the embedded thumbnail are supposed to have the same ratio (as far as the big square represents the image and the small one represents the thumbnail)
Also my laptop is 1280x800, what does it have to do with the icon? Don't these icons stay the same whichever the resolution?
8 and 9 are good IMO. Not sure if the inner frame is necessary though.

helmut · Post by **helmut** » Tue May 31, 2005 6:12 am

Olive wrote:Sorry I don't see why it shouldn't be a square? A rectangle inside a square looks wrong because the image and the embedded thumbnail are supposed to have the same ratio (as far as the big square represents the image and the small one represents the thumbnail)

That's right. But the outermost square is just a simple border which all info symbols have. So only if there's an middle, grey square the ratio of that should be the same as the thumbnail's square.

Olive wrote:Also my laptop is 1280x800, what does it have to do with the icon? Don't these icons stay the same whichever the resolution?

The problem is that these guys have a high resolution but a small screen. Thus each pixel is very small and you can't see the icons right.

Olive wrote:8 and 9 are good IMO. Not sure if the inner frame is necessary though.

What about 8 without the grey square (inner frame)?

Lesmo16 · Post by **Lesmo16** » Tue May 31, 2005 6:25 am

3 goals for Helmut!