Re: thumbs.el and transparency

[Mathias Dahl]

Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:

>> I see. Another configuration that I set up manually sometimes, is
>> this:
>>
>>  
>>  +--------------+
>>  |     D        |
>>  +------+-------+
>>  | TB   |  DB   |
>>  |      |       |
>>  +------+-------+
>>
>> It has the advantage of not truncating the dired information.
>
> For the little job that tumme does, it's unreasonable for it to
> perform such invasive changes on my window configuration, or to demand
> all the Emacs screen "real estate".

I understand from all the comments that it is intrusive. Still, tumme
does not require any window configuration at all really. It's up to
you how many buffers you want to see, depending on what you want to do
with it. That three window-configuration is very handy when you are
doing certain kinds of work with your images, trust me, but of course
far from all.

Yesterday I posted some small changes to tumme that would make it less
intrusive for a first time user. Try them out.

> But there's no need to reinvent the wheel for tumme.el -- just use
> the speedbar!

Yay! :)

> See the attached preliminary patch.  Do (setq tumme-use-speedbar t),
> turn on the speedbar, and open any dired buffer containing images.
> Apart from saving real estate, you don't need a keybinding to display
> a thumbnail --- the speedbar timer allows you to display the image at
> point automatically.

I will try it!

> One other thing that this patch demonstrates is the usefulness of a
> `tumme-get-thumbnail-image' function, that just takes the original
> filename and returns a thumbnail image descriptor.  Then third-party
> libraries won't have to muck around with tumme.el's internal functions
> like `thumme-thumb-name', `tumme-create-thumb', etc.  You probably
> want to add this function to tumme.el in any case.

Great, thanks!

/Mathias