[Imc-tech] Re: Color, No Thumbnail was Re: [Imc-web] Feature

[Mike Lehman]

Arun,
Thanks for looking into this. You may be right that the problem has 
existed for some time. I have noticed thumbnails acting a little 
strangely in the past, but I was never sure if it was me or them.
:)

As I said, not a big deal, but if anyone does know the answer without 
spending lots of time digging, that would be cool.
Mike Lehman

Arun Bhalla wrote:

> As far as I can tell, the change that fixed the color rendering had
> nothing to do with the thumbnail feature.  In fact, no recent patching
> has seemed to involve the thumbnail feature, so it's possible this bug
> has been broken for several months or a year or longer?  The thumbnail
> is being created properly -- it's on the filesystem, and there's a
> proper thumbnail on the UCIMC home page -- but for some reason Dada is 
> opting to display the "large" version, which is actually the original 
> image after it has been downsized too 400 pixels wide (that's the
> current setting of the "image_page_width" preference).
> 
> I don't grok Dada well enough that it wouldn't take me a fair amount of time
> to track down the bug.
> 
> Arun
> 
> Mike Lehman writes:
> 
>>I'll bet that when we fixed the color rendering, it may have broken the 
>>thumbnailing feature. Darrin noted that when he checked the box to use 
>>the image as a thumbnail, the Feature did not generate a thumbnail 
>>properly within the Feature itself. If we have to choose one or the 
>>other, I suppose we should go with color.
>>
>>If anyone can look into this when they get a chance, please do. It would 
>>be cool to have both good color and proper thumbnails.
>>Mike Lehman