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Not sure how to put this but the flash tag sucks a bit. Problem is that there is no way to preview... Wouldn't it be better to make it a text list instead? At least that could give info allowing us to have a clue what the flash animation is...
Updated by iamtakingiteasy
There is a way to implement flash previews: you can use swfdec-thumbnailer from swfdec-gnome package, which producing fully rendered raster image of specified size. Or just use it's code to make own one, since it licensed under LGPLv2.1.
On my test on ~400 files it worked mostly fine with about ~5 exceptions when due to bad timing preview was plain color, but handling such cases can be automated simply with something like GD/imagemagick and trying another time to get the thumbnail from.
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neverb said:
There is a way to implement flash previews: you can use swfdec-thumbnailer from swfdec-gnome package, which producing fully rendered raster image of specified size. Or just use it's code to make own one, since it licensed under LGPLv2.1.On my test on ~400 files it worked mostly fine with about ~5 exceptions when due to bad timing preview was plain color, but handling such cases can be automated simply with something like GD/imagemagick and trying another time to get the thumbnail from.
I am not complaining... I am merely stating an area that can have software improvement. I thought that was a no brainier. :)
I know all too way to find workarounds to fix such problems. But the entire site wouldn't benefit from those...
Shiroi_Neko said:
I am not complaining... I am merely stating an area that can have software improvement. I thought that was a no brainier. :)I know all too way to find workarounds to fix such problems. But the entire site wouldn't benefit from those...
This was information for danbooru developers, swfdec-thumbnailer fully server-aplicatable.
albert said:
Create a Trac ticket and I'll look into it. Although if it depends on the GNOME stack I'm kinda loathe to install it on a server.
