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  32 <H1>10.1 General Options</H1>
  33 <P>This section describes the options presented under the General Tab
  34 of the preferences dialog.</P>
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  37 <P><U>Startup</U></P>
  38 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Change to folder</B>: Enabling this
  39 will cause GQview to initially open to the specified folder.</P>
  40 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Use Current</B>: Activate this
  41 button to change the setting to the current folder.</P>
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  46 <U>Thumbnails</U></P>
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  48         <DL>
  49                 <DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none"><B>Size</B>:
  50                 Selects the size of the thumbnails displayed throughout GQview,
  51                 dimensions are width by height in pixels.</DD><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none">
  52                 <B>Quality</B>: Selects the method to use when scaling an image
  53                 down for thumbnails.</DD></DL>
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  56 <B>Nearest</B>: Fastest scaler, but results in poor thumbnail
  57 quality.<BR><B>Tiles</B>: Thumbnail results are very close to
  58 bilinear, with better speed.<BR><B>Bilinear</B>: High quality
  59 results, moderately fast.<BR><B>Hyper</B>: Slowest scaler, sometimes
  60 gives better results than bilinear.</P>
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  62         <DL>
  63                 <DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in"><B>Cache thumbnails</B>: Enable
  64                 this to save thumbnails to disk, subsequent requests for a
  65                 thumbnail will be faster. Thumbnails are cached into
  66                 ($HOME)/.gqview/thumbnails. Refer to <A HREF="11_3_thumbnails.html">11.3
  67                 thumbnails</A> for details.</DD><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in">
  68                 <B>Use shared thumbnail cache:</B> This will use a thumbnail
  69                 caching method that is compatible with applications that use the
  70                 standard thumbnail specification. When this option is enabled
  71                 thumbnails will be stored in ($HOME)/.thumbnails</DD><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in">
  72                 <B>Cache thumbnails into .thumbnails</B>: When enabled, GQview
  73                 attempts to store cached thumbnails closer to the source image.
  74                 This way multiple users can benefit from a single cache, thereby
  75                 reducing wasted disk space. The resulting location is the source
  76                 image's folder, in a sub folder with the name <B>.thumbnails</B>.
  77                 When the image source folder cannot be written, GQview falls back
  78                 to saving the thumbnail in the user's home folder.</DD><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none">
  79                 <B>Use xvpics thumbnails when found</B>: xvpics is a common
  80                 thumbnail caching format used by several applications. Thumbnails
  81                 are stored locally to the source image in a sub folder with the
  82                 name <B>.xvpics</B>. Enabling this option will allow GQview to read
  83                 thumbnails saved in the xvpics format.</DD><DL>
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  85                                 <DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none">
  86                                 <I>Note:</I> Support for xvpics is read only, GQview can not
  87                                 generate thumbnails in this format.</DD></DL>
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  94 <P><U>Slide show</U></P>
  95 <DL>
  96         <DL>
  97                 <DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none"><B>Delay
  98                 between image change</B>: Specifies the delay between images for
  99                 slide shows, in seconds.</DD><DD STYLE="margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-decoration: none">
 100                 <B>Random</B>: When enabled, slide show images will appear in
 101                 random order.</DD><DL>
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 104                                 <I>Note:</I> Random images are displayed such that each image
 105                                 appears once per cycle of all images. When the slide show repeat
 106                                 option is enabled, the image order is randomized after completing
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 110                 <B>Repeat</B>: When enabled, slide shows will continue at the
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