Comment 6 for bug 1397005
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| aceMa (h-manthey) wrote Re: [Bug 1397005] Re: Image Gallery option "square thumbnails" distorts displayed images when their width and height are not equal. | #6 |
Details in this Layout may be changed. Feel free to do so.
For my solution I had the following in mind. The image Gallery is a
collection of different visual elements (images).
Displaying the square, as the underlying principle, gives a sort of
regularity or evenness that
(for my eyes) prevents it from beeing ugly.
It is nessasary to provide the description if the user decided so. That
needs some extra space.
Since these descriptions can be quite long they are shrinked to one
line. That may be a problem
but prevents an unpredictable behavior of the layout. I decided to give
some space to the images
simply because it is needed to present the content accordingly. Of
course this can be changed.
Am 01.12.2014 um 05:12 schrieb Aaron Wells:
> To get a better idea of what this patch does, I've attached a screenshot
> showing side-by-side:
>
> 1. The gallery block with the "Thumbnails" setting
>
> 2. The gallery block with the "Thumbnails (square)" setting before this
> patch
>
> 3. The gallery block with the "Thumbnails (square)" setting after this
> patch
>
> You can see that neither "Thumbnails" nor "Thumbnails (square)" works
> particularly well for galleries that have a mix of images of different
> aspect ratios. "Thumbnails" sort of packs them together based on the
> size of the largest image, while "Thumbnails (square)" distorts them all
> into squares. So this new patch is certainly an improvement, scaling
> them all to fit into a square of the same size.
>
> On the other hand, it also seems to put a big frame around the images?
> And if "Show descriptions" is turned on, it shrinks the images extra
> small to make room for the caption underneath them, which I'm not as
> happy about.
>
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