Re: Publication information for tasks pages
Andreas Tille schrieb:
> [Christoph, please read the marked **** paragraph about screenshots and
> perhaps comment on this in a CC to the list. Thanks.]
>
> **** screenshots.debian.net ****
>
> On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 05:11:58PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
>> 1. The screenshot thumbnails are unnecessarily small and the box they
>> are in has a big margin (at least on my 1024x768 gecko browser); I guess
>> that is a problem with screenshots.debian.net, but really - the
>> thumbnails are useless.
I'm providing two sizes of screenshots on screenshots.debian.net:
- up to 160x120 (keeping aspect)
- up to 800x600 (keeping aspect)
These two sizes are pre-rendered at the moment someone uploads a new
screenshot. Creating further sizes like <=320x240 would not easily be
possible as I had to write a batch to resize them and write additional code
to display them. I don't believe it's worth it. Creating resized images
dynamically would even kill the server. I know that because I have tried it.
>> If they were twice as big, they would probably
>> still fit into the free space and be useful.
For most packages on screenshots.debian.net the sizes are appropriate.
After all they are GUI applications or games that give you a pretty good
idea of what they deal with. I understand that it's less useful in
scientific applications that show a lot of details in a large window. But
you get the full-sized screenshot by hovering your mouse so that shouldn't
be a big deal.
Perhaps I should offer a paid version with screenshots of sizes >800x600
and place spam ads on the free version. :)
Cheers
Christoph
P.S.: I'm not subscribed. Keep me CC'ed if you like.
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