[Sugar-devel] Better resolution for the Preview image - Re: Sugar Digest 2013-02-02

[Manuel Quiñones]

2013/2/4 Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org>:
>
>> Definitely. Better resolution for the preview image is something I
>> always wanted to see. I remember the topic appearing once in a while
>> since I joined the project.  Main reason against is the disc space
>> limitations in XO-1 hardware.
>>
>> Current size is poor 300 x 225 px.  That is 1/4 of XO resolution, 1200
>> x 900 px.  Maybe we can bump it up to 1/2 XO resolution 600 x 450 px,
>> then we can easily make a thumbnail of 300 x 225 resizing the preview
>> by a half.
>>
>
> While we are here, I propose add a API to get the preview image size,
> a few activities create custom preview images, and the size is harcoded.
> (right now, w=style.zoom(300) h=style.zoom(225))
>
> Probably have the posibility of define it in gconf or similar is a good
> idea.
> Then, if a deployment have concerns about space size,
> can use the actual image size.

I think making the size a public constant in the toolkit would
suffice.  Patch attached.


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