[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] higher-resolution thumbnails

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Sascha Silbe <silbe at activitycentral.com> wrote:
>>> +1 though this is raises the question of what resolution would be good
>>> enough. Ideally we would store images at the full display resolution,
>>> and try to minimise the storage space tradeoff by being more
>>> aggressive on compression.
>>
>> +1 on storing in native display size. Folks with larger screens tend to
>> have more permanent storage space, making the proportional increase in
>> overhead less of an issue. The XO case is going to be the most
>> interesting one in terms of storage overhead.
>
> Another overhead to keep in mind: if my understanding is correct, we
> synchronously take this screenshot on activity exit and on changing to
> another activity (e.g. with the frame). Saving a full-resolution
> screenshot (with or without compression) is likely to take quite a
> while on XO, especially on XO-1.

May well be we need to have some special case for XO 1.

-walter

>
> Daniel



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