Open mattewan opened 5 years ago
This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity and it seems to be missing some essential informations. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.
More a feature request than a bug I think, but not stale...
I agree, thumbnails seem to be a complete deal breaker for many installs, it makes the entire stack feel like a steamy pile, beginners are even ending up googling how to fix the thumbnails
when they could just push their data to google or apple and it just works... for viewing thumbnails, which humans have been doing on computers for decades now
https://ownyourbits.com/2019/06/29/understanding-and-improving-nextcloud-previews/
yeah i see it, i'm at the bottom of the list and i'm just waiting for something... anything
There are two workarounds for this:
But unfortunately the described feature is not really high on our priority list. But this doesn't mean that we don't like the idea or that we are against this feature per se. Quite the opposite! 🙂 There are many way to get new features in Nextcloud:
no offense, but I sent a PR that had 0 traction
I gotta agree with @nachoparker @szaimen ... closing this is really just a political stunt/image fixing
I suppose in this case I was wrong closing this issue. But does it change something?
PR is here: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/16158
Here is a wild thought. How about Gallery just stops sending preview images when you click on them when they don't exist yet? Just send the file.
The fact that we still can't configure nextcloud to just stop all of the preview nonsense - make small thumbs for grid views - and send original images for everything else - its really quite mind boggling.
Quite honestly, I think nextcloud should just throw it all away, and integrate another 3rd party photo tool as an app in nextcloud that actually works, and includes modern photo viewer features. Spending this many years trying (and failing, in my view) to even get thumbnails right... Its just silly at this point. There are entire other teams out there working to do photos right:
https://github.com/piwigo/piwigo https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism
Or dozens and dozens of opensource javascript photo viewers, that just need photos fed into them.
And I'm sure many more that I haven't heard of. If the APIs are inadequate to allow that sort of tool integration, it seems that a better use of time would be to improve the integration APIs, rather than continuing to waste time reinventing the wheel on a photo app.
Unfortunately integrating another open source project for photo viewing wouldn't solve this issue as previews are deeply integrated into Nextcloud itself...
Nextcloud Gallery displays a preview of a jpeg (or other supported file formats) when clicking on the file. However, the preview app will "hang" with a spinner until a preview has been generated for the file.
This in itself may be expected behaviour, however nextcloud isn't smart in the way it generates previews. If you upload 1000 images via the sync client, then browse to that folder via the web interface, scroll all the way to the bottom and click on the last image, the viewer will hang with a spinner until all the previous images in the folder have had previews generated.
I would have expected nextcloud to prioritise preview generation of files that are viewed so that the viewer doesn't hang while nextcloud sequentially generates previews of all the files in the folder.
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Server configuration
Operating system: Gentoo
Web server: Apache
Database: MySQL
PHP version: Php 7.2
Nextcloud version: (see Nextcloud admin page) 14.0.6