Support choosing the number of displayed thumbnails

Extracted from Progress panel is too wide on phone screens.

PhotoStructure tries to choose a sensible amount of thumbnails to be shown at the same time, depending on the screen size. Users might prefer to see more or less thumbnails.

Suggestion by @mrm: “I was thinking about adding a “+” and “-” button in the headers to show more or less rows of thumbs… would that work?”

This will also help people with libraries that span tons of years, or have tons of keywords. Currently it’s a lot of scrolling to get through tags with tons of children.

I guess this should be stored as a user preference, like thumbnail size?

I was just thinking this same thing the other day!

Yes, I think that makes sense.

As I mentioned before, it would be awesome if we could store these user preferences in a config file instead of (or as an alternative to) a cookie.

Ah, I forgot about your always-wipe-all-the-cookies browser setup.

I think a server-side UI config will make sense as soon as I add the idea of a “logged-in user” to PhotoStructure.

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That would be ideal!

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@mrm,

Have looked into the settings and not found any way to limit the number of thumbnails pr “area” in the home screen. Was this ever implemented?

On a phone the “home screen” is not optimal, as there is way to many thumbs pr when/who/where.

I was using the Windows version, version 1.1, and this one provides much less thumbs. With docker and version 2024.3.3 there are a lot of thumbs

A simple setting to make “max thumbs” is what Im looking for.

The next release will contain both a dropdown in the tag header that lists all direct child tags, as well as a +/- in the tag header to control how many rows of thumbnails to display. :partying_face:

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I was looking for this topic as the problem I’m facing at the moment is being able to display larger thumbnails in Chrome on an ultra-wide display while sitting at the table with a “client” so to speak.

I’m going through family photos with my father and uncle and having my wide screen display at the end of the table, despite it’s size, renders 21 thumbnails across and 7 down, and they’re quite small. If we could change the thumbnail display size, we could reduce the screen to showing only 8, 12, or 15, or any other “zoom” level.