Show Folder thumbnails in Launcher, Workfiles tool, Loader in the Folder Widget.

[BigRoy]

Changelog Description

Show the folder thumbnails for the folder entries in the Folder Widget, making it how in the Launcher, Workfiles Tool, Loader, etc.

Additional info

Uses a background thread to retrieve the thumbnails to avoid large slow downs.

Just a prototype to show how it could be done.

A draft implementation for: #749
(However this does not show task thumbnails)

Testing notes:

1. Run launcher/loader etc. and it should show thumbnails.

[iLLiCiTiT]

1. Shouldn't we cache it on disk so each refresh does not re-download all thumbnails on project?
2. Shoulnd't we use thumbnail_id on entities instead of using endpoint to get thumbnail by entity type and id -> which re-downloads the same thumbnail if is the same?
3. I believe thumbnails should have their model for that, so it's managable at single place.

[BigRoy]

1. Shouldn't we cache it on disk so each refresh does not re-download all thumbnails on project?

   2. Shoulnd't we use thumbnail_id on entities instead of using endpoint to get thumbnail by entity type and id -> which re-downloads the same thumbnail if is the same?

   3. I believe thumbnails should have their model for that, so it's managable at single place.

All valid questions - this was merely a prototype. I think, yes - optimization here is good.

Before that though - I wonder about how worth it that really is if e.g. no-one likes the UX this brings. E.g. currently entries without thumbnail are not expanded in the list - sometimes making an 'uneven' list which feels a bit cluttered, etc.

[iLLiCiTiT]

Before that though - I wonder about how worth it that really is if e.g. no-one likes the UX this brings. E.g. currently entries without thumbnail are not expanded in the list - sometimes making an 'uneven' list which feels a bit cluttered, etc.

Agree that the UX is "not friendly", and I'm know to not be the person who can change that. But I can make it happen if someone comes with one 🙂 and I'll get hours to work on it.

[mkolar]

Quite frankly there's not much point putting a lot of work into launcher right now as we're planning to replace it with a react UI anyways.

[BigRoy]

Quite frankly there's not much point putting a lot of work into launcher right now as we're planning to replace it with a react UI anyways.

Note that it isn't dedicated to launcher - it's implementing in the "Folder widget" which is used in launcher, but also in Loader, Workfiles tool inside DCCs, etc.