XYplorer Beta Club

Resurrecting my #1 feature request from a few years ago. Though I see someone else asked for it last year.

Folder thumbnails - folder icons display a thumbnail of any file in the folder named "folder.*" (where * is an image extension, especially png, jpg, jpeg, gif and bmp). The latter would be an improvement over Explorer (which only does jpg, gif and bmp). Explorer also shows a bunch of thumbnails where there is no folder.* image but to me that's an optional second part.

This would also fulfill the request for larger folder thumbnails.

I never really used this feature in WE.
Instead of thumbnails through folder.*-files I've always using custom folder-icons via desktop.ini.
Okay, in thumbnail-view the icons doesn't get bigger than 32x32 and you need to create a .ico-file out of the image you want to use, but its enough for me.
So I've voted for lowest prio.

Although I voted "Would be nice, but should be a low priority" I indulged in the pleasure of contradicting myself and simply added it because it was so easy to do. The yellow background is a bit raw but (I think) less ugly than Explorer's flat-fat folder icon pancakes.

See yourself: 4 items in the list, 3 of them folders, 1 image file (happens to be the same pic as in folder "bruce"), 2 of the folders have a "folder.jpg" resp. "folder.png" inside.

Chris Wood wrote:Folder thumbnails - folder icons display a thumbnail of any file in the folder named "folder.*" (where * is an image extension, especially png, jpg, jpeg, gif and bmp)

Why jpeg? I find this a rather uncommon extension.

I agree, your thumbnail on folders are a lot better than explorer's and MDBU is great too.

Thanks so much for fulfilling my number one request!

admin wrote:

Chris Wood wrote:Folder thumbnails - folder icons display a thumbnail of any file in the folder named "folder.*" (where * is an image extension, especially png, jpg, jpeg, gif and bmp)

Why jpeg? I find this a rather uncommon extension.

It's just an alternative to jpg. You're right, it's not common, but why not?

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[color=#00FF00]If no "folder.*" is found, the alphabetically first JPG image in the folder is taken (if any).[/color]

I have to ask, why only JPG, and not the other kinds as well? That would be consistent...

Chris Wood wrote:Thanks so much for fulfilling my number one request!

admin wrote:

Chris Wood wrote:Folder thumbnails - folder icons display a thumbnail of any file in the folder named "folder.*" (where * is an image extension, especially png, jpg, jpeg, gif and bmp)

Why jpeg? I find this a rather uncommon extension.

It's just an alternative to jpg. You're right, it's not common, but why not?

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[color=#00FF00]If no "folder.*" is found, the alphabetically first JPG image in the folder is taken (if any).[/color]

I have to ask, why only JPG, and not the other kinds as well? That would be consistent...

The answer to both: performance. Minimal, but every nonsecond counts. If you have many folders without any folder.* and without any *.jpg then another polling of *.png would notably decrease browsing speed.

If you're worried about performance you could safely remove the check for folder.jpeg and folder.bmp. People can convert them if they need to, they're both uncommon.

Chris Wood wrote:...

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[color=#00FF00]If no "folder.*" is found, the alphabetically first JPG image in the folder is taken (if any).[/color]

I have to ask, why only JPG, and not the other kinds as well? That would be consistent...

I second that! If this is really a performance problem you can make it optional (and off by default). I often have folders with PNGs only and it doesn't look very good if just every second folder shows a thumbnail.

i cast my vote, that is to even out the highest