Perhaps skip the large thumbnails for dynamically created ones.

[anonymous]

Hi!

As an example I'm gonna use my case.

I resize my photos to 800x600 before I upload to save space on my webhost. When plogger creates thumbnails it creates one small and one large. The small one is fine, but the large one (in my case set to 670) is almost like having a duplicate image on the server, and in my case the large thumbnail take almost as much space as the original picture.

Would it be possible to skip the large thumbnail creation and perhaps resize the original image dynamically when just viewing the one big thumbnail?

If this is not possible I would be happy if I could set an option to use the original one in the singleview instead of a larger thumb.

Thanks

[Thomas Evensen]

oh.. and my site is http://tt.norwegianbastard.net/gallery (in norwegian)

[jack]

I can agree on this. I would be much nicer if there were'nt so many copies/sizes of the original images. Also I really, really, really would urge for an option where the user can choose if he wants yes/no to use/create either the intermediate sized image, only the large (original) sized image, or both. In my case I want to skip the intermediate picture by using a popup at that point (see my testsite for what I mean). But when doing this, the intermediate image is created either way! So I have, like Thomas, a whole bunch of images on the server that I don't need!

Example: http://www.spoenk.nl/plogger

[anti]

So, let's add a new option (checkbox) "Create intermediate pictures"? On by default, can be turned off. Clicking on a thumbnail opens the same user interface as now, but the original file is shown instead of the intermediate picture.

The value of that option will be stored in the plogger_thumbnail_config table (needs a new column). generate_thumbnail can check that option and return the url to original image if set.

This should do it. Did I overlook something?

[anti]

Fixed in SVN