Bug 220523

Summary: ICONVIEW : Add new option to not generate automatically thumbnail with large image
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Mathias Lindner <monoceros84>
Component: Thumbs-IconViewAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: caulier.gilles, simonandric5
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.10.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Mathias Lindner 2009-12-29 13:56:18 UTC 
Version:           0.10 (using KDE 4.2.4)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Big images last usually several minutes to be loaded into the thumbnail view. During this time digiKam and the whole system (on single core hardware) is blocked.

I would like to have an option to disable thumbnail building for files bigger than an adjustable size and/or for files of a special mime type. E.g. GIMP XCF files last very long to be loaded. One could set 'xcf' to not be thumbnailed or set the file size limit to 30MB.

They should appear in the album - I want to tag them. But their thumbnail should not be built.
This might even be improved if the thumbnail of the equally named JPEG would be used e.g.