Show icons for video thumbnails only

[c0thirty]

There is an option for "Show file icon on thumbnail". Could we have a setting to set what types or classes of files to show icons for? I would like to set it to only show icons for video files and not photos.

[kiwichick]

+1

I've never thought about it before but, now that you've suggested it, I think it could be a handy feature.

[admin]

Why?

[c0thirty]

I often browse large folders that have many images and comparitively few videos. I have a color filter for highlighting the caption of video files, but when I'm browsing a large collection, or searching for something specific, I find captions and excessive file icons can be distracting, since it adds to the visual noise when I'm scanning hundreds of thumbnails looking for specific patterns, so I turn them off, but then it becomes very difficult to differentiate images from videos. I'd like a way to differentiate them with a minimal amount of visual noise, such as displaying icons only for videos, or a color filter border around the thumbnail when captions are turned off.

[admin]

Did you try this?

Configuration | Preview | Thumbnails | Show film strip overlay on video thumbnails

[c0thirty]

Yes, this feels very disorienting though. The film strip edges brace the image rather than overlaying it so I really have to look even closer to not mistake which ones are which.

[admin]

Because you use zero padding.

[c0thirty]

Yes, this lets me get more information with fewer distracting elements on the screen.

[c0thirty]

I should also add that there's a significant performance advantage for me when disabling captions entirely in very large folders. Besides a perceptible speed difference, sometimes when scrolling up a page or so none of the thumbnails display at all (even if previously cached), until I pause for a moment and then scroll up and down a line again to force it to "kick in", for some reason. Doesn't seem to happen as much when captions are off.

[admin]

Interesting. Set this to 100:
Configuration | Colors and Styles | Fonts | Thumbnail captions relative font size (%)

Is it still slower with captions showing?