[mythtv-users] MythGallery: selecting a favorite picture as directory thumb

[Angela]

> The new Gallery was written by a contributor and was committed without
> much testing in the hope that someone (the patch author?) would continue
> developing it but unfortunately that didn't happen.
> 
> What we have now is pretty broken and incomplete so at this stage it's not
> clear what will happen to it. It may be easier to add MythUI and storage
> group support to the existing gallery plugin than try to fix the new
Gallery
> and add all the missing features?
> 
> Paul H.

I had a one hour glance at the new code, and saw code/algorithms from the
existing version implemented. 
Stuart moved the thumbnail generation to the backend, suppose this should be
working.

Even my patch for 0.27 https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12278, as far as
I am able to interpret the code is implemented.
Cdraw support is removed, but also on a 4-core cpu this is too slow for a
slideshow. Also megapixels are getting higher with newer cameras, making it
IMHO very uninteresting. Building thumbnails from a directory with 100
images will halt your system.

Can you be more specific what is broken and incomplete?

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Release_Notes_-_0.28
I am only familiar with changes from JYA (-fixes) and the uPNP stuff. I
hoped to find some more information on what is worked on, besides Bug fixing
which I can find in trac. 

Angela