[Rumpus-talk] Rumpus 6.1 FC 3

[John O'Fallon]

At this stage, the Rumpus application interface (administrator  
options) are fixed.  I agree that an administrator option to provide  
some control over the user's ability to switch between thumbnail and  
standard list views is a good idea, and this will be added for Rumpus  
6.2.

For now, when a folder is marked for thumbnail display, that is the  
default view for that folder.  Users can choose to see the standard  
view, and flip back to thumbnail view, using the buttons provided.

As for the use of the "Rumpus_Thumbs" folder... It will indeed always  
stay.  If it were removed every time a user changed views, Rumpus  
would have to regenerate the thumbnails every time any user changed to  
the standard view, which would take a ton of extra overhead.  This  
isn't to say that the functional issues isn't something that needs to  
be addressed...

My thought is that what is needed is a "Default View" admin setting  
that would apply to thumbnail view folders.  The options would be  
"Thumbnails Only" (in which case the option to see the standard view  
listings would be removed entirely), "Thumbnail Default" and "Standard  
Default".  Would that do the trick?

John

On Aug 17, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Bryan Taylor wrote:

> When the user clicks back to list view after clicking thumbnail view  
> shouldn't it remove the "Rumpus_Thumbs" folder so that that now  
> becomes the new default view for that folder.
>
> As it is now, it appears that once the user changes to thumbnail  
> view the "Rumpus_Thumbs" folder is created and from that point on  
> that folder will always be viewed as thumbnail.
>
> **It's starting to seem to me that by using the "Rumpus_Thumbs"  
> folder as the trigger is probably going to cause consistency issue  
> when multiple users access the Web FTP. seem like if user A chooses  
> thumbnail view then all users are now going to see that folder as  
> thumbnail. no?**
>