Consider this situation:
Top level--
Album X--
SubA
SubB
where album X has a thumbnail size of 250
and SubA/B have thumbnail size of 150
and the top-level thumbnail size (gallery config
setting) is 200.
Each of SubA/B have some photo selected as
the highlight and album X has SubA selected as
its highlight.
In gallery 1.3.1 this is the result:
-- when viewing album X: the thumbnails (not the
highlights) of subA/B are used.. the images are
size 150 and they get stretched to show size
250.. obviously this doesn't look very good.
-- highlight for album X at top level is ok,
referring directly to highlight image inside SubA,
size 200.
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I have patched gallery 1.3.1 to create highlight images
using the thumbnail size of the parent album, or the
gallery top-level thumb size if there is no parent.
This way album X will get highlight photos in the
correct size of 250.
Caveats:
- if you delete a subalbum that was the highlight for
the parent album it will leave a *.highlight.* file in
the directory for the parent album.
- if you do "rebuild thumbs" I don't think it will
recreate the highlights for subalbums.
The patch is available under bug 598025.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=598025&group_id=7130&atid=107130
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This patch (and fixes for caveats above) are included in
Gallery 1.4.3