user images get really small as the tree gets big...

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I'm using 90x90px image files for users (sucked down from gravatar.com) and 
as the tree visualization gets really large, the user images seem to maintain 
their original scale relative to an individual leaf. Also, as the images get 
smaller, they also pull further away from the user's name.

The combination of these two effects make the user images really hard to see, 
and nearly unrecognizable.

So, is there any way to get the user images to retain their size? perhaps 
scale them relative to the window size, rather than the size of a leaf (or 
whatever they are scaled to now)?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by steveharman on 22 Feb 2010 at 8:37

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I agree the positions of the names above the users seems a bit wonky at some 
scales.

Having the option to scale the users to the window size is an interesting idea. 
I'm
not sure it should be the default, as on some projects the user images would 
just
obscure everything.

There is the --user-scale SCALE option, though that is not relative to the 
window
size. I guess the way to go might be to allow '--user-scale fixed:SCALE' to 
indicate
the scale of the users is fixed (relative to the window).

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2010 at 10:40

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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that sounds logical to me...

Original comment by steveharman on 23 Feb 2010 at 11:51

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Names now scale more accurately with the user size in the new release. I've 
done some
work on the fixed user scale feature though there are still some issues it 
raises I
need to deal with (my method of tracing mouse clicks doesn't currently work 
with this).

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2010 at 1:36

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Is there an update on this? I'm working on a video with gource, but the user 
images once the camera moves out is really unfortunate.  I'm not using the 
mouse, so even just a patch file i could apply would be sweet.

Original comment by davidz...@gmail.com on 4 Mar 2011 at 8:55

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I'll take another look at it.

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 8 Mar 2011 at 8:34

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Is there an update on this?
I'm using 400x300 images at scale 2, which are pretty big at the start, but by 
the end they are completely unrecognisable, appearing as tiny dots. It would be 
great to be able to have more control over the size.

Original comment by em...@swiftkey.com on 21 Jun 2013 at 5:17

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Is there an update? I like the suggested '--user-scale fixed:SCALE' solution.

Original comment by dominik....@googlemail.com on 12 Dec 2014 at 1:14