[Klug-general] Next Meeting - 1st March 2014

[Michael Sinclair]

It sounds like you have the preview mode off.  Though I don't know how 
to resize the thumbnails (I think that might be controlled by the file 
browser) I can suggest (in Gimp) to try clicking through: 
'Edit/Preferences' then under 'Image Thumbnails / Size of thumbnails: 
select 'large'.  At least this way you can get a preview as opposed to 
nothing.

The way I manipulate multiple files at once with a good preview is to 
open the file folder with your system file browser, which also gives you 
a good thumbnail preview, use 'View' and select 'Icons'. Then Shift 
right click or Ctrl right click on the images you would like to work 
with and select 'Open with' and then 'Gimp'.

This will have one instance of Gimp open with multiple image windows for 
each file.  Also try installing Davids batch if you intend on doing 
batch processing... or Phatch for automatic batch processing.

Regards

Michael


On 19/02/14 06:38, Thomas Edward Groves wrote:
> In GIMP: to select an image to open I click on Open then navigate to the
> directory I want.
> At this point I've got a list of files in that directory, by name, each line
> starting
> with a tiny patch of colour which can just be seen to be the smallest most
> useless
> image possible.
> My question is: is there any way to make those images big enough to be
> useful.
>
> Incidentally Krita has the same thing but also has a slider to adjust the
> image sizes.
>
> The objection to using something like Gwenview to open an image is that it
> opens a separate
> instance of GIMP for each image and I want to have two or more images open
> at once
> in one instance of GIMP.
>
> Basically GIMP's  "image browser" (what else can we call it?) is a naff
> afterthought
> that I would be ashamed of it was my work.
>
> Tom
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paul Littlefield <info at paully.co.uk>
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 8:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Next Meeting - 1st March 2014
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>> On 18/02/14 06:12, Thomas Edward Groves wrote:
>>> 1) in the Gimp is there any way to make the image browser use larger
> (visible) thumbnails?
>> Not sure. I use GIMP a lot, where do you mean?
>>
>>> 2) how do I check if a flashdrive is still busy loading files BEFORE I
> umount and unplug it?
>> lsof /dev/sdXX
>>
>> man lsof
>>
>>
>> Also, I use the 'sync' command just to make sure the computer has written
> all the data to the drive. It will do that anyway, but sometimes I just need
> to be sure.
>> If it hangs when you run this, just wait... and wait some more.
>>
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