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Filter wallpaper images by aspect ratio (and dimensions)

Bug #1211078 reported by aslam karachiwala
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Bug Description

If one could specify the aspect ratio as a filter option, scaling would be more reliable -- images that do not correctly occupy the entire display would be avoided. Some sources, like wallbase.cc, do offer this filter on their sites.

Being able to specify multiple exact dimensions as filters would be good too, if one wants to exclude, say, images that are either either too big or too small.

Peter Levi (peterlevi)
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importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Peter Levi (peterlevi) wrote :

Wallbase support now allows to use such a filter. Let's see how long this site will be functional though.
A global filter would also make sense, but this is low priority.

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status: New → Confirmed
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Gabriel Dubatti (gdubatti) wrote :

Another important filter (at last for me) would be "maximum filesize".
I saw from time to time some files that are really big and slow to display (and not necessarily of very good quality).
I manually delete files that are bigger than 2 or 3MB.

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aslam karachiwala (akwala) wrote :

Seems to me that this filter belongs on the 'Color & Size' tab of the Preferences wizard. If that were the case then I wouldn't have to check the dimensions of wallpapers on vrty.org before marking them as favorites. IOW, I am manually filtering for the aspect ratio on the site and my favorites are actually a subset of the ones I like.

Secondly, this would allow for machine specific filtering, which would be useful if one has machines with different resolutions and/or aspect ratios.

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