Use this dialog box to store your prefered parameters to display images :
The "Options" tab specifies general options :
Common repository : just specify here the directory which is defined as the "base dir" of the GPC repository. The name of this directory must start and finish with a "/" character.
Confirm inserts in reference tables : values entered in combo boxes are stored in reference tables. You can ask for GPC to display a confirmation message when a new value is entered, before storing it in the reference table.
Delete records of deleted images from database : when you update an existing film, generally to take care of new images, you can ask for GPC to delete from database references to images which no longer exist in the film directory.
Store PostgreSQL connection password : you can store your database connection username and password, to be able to log-in automatically on next startup. This password is not crypted, but stored in the '~/.gnome_private' configuration section, in a user-only readable file.
Automatically connect to last used database : if you store your PostgreSQL database connection password (see before), you can ask for GPC to connect automatically to current database on the next startup.
The "Images" tab is used to specify the way images are displayed :
Keep actual zoom factor : when this option is checked, an image is initially displayed with the same zoom factor as the last one.
Zoom to original size : when this option is displayed, an image is displayed with a "normal" zoom factor.
Fit image to window : select this option to display images ajusted to the current window size. With this option, small images are enlarged to ajust to the window size.
Zoom to original size, or fit if image is too large : this option is like the previous one, but small images are never enlarged to ajust with the window size.
Thumbnails size : this is the size (in screen pixels) of the thumbnails used to display films contents.
Thumbnails font : this is the name of the font used to display images names under thumbnails.
Store thumbnails : when this option is checked, thumbnails are created and stored on disk, as soon as an image is added or updated into GPC database. These thumbnails are stored in a ".gpc" subdirectory of each film's directory. If you want to create and store thumbnails for a film which is already stored into your GPC database, you just have to update it (film and images informations will not be modified)
Thumbnails creation command : this command line is used to create thumbnails which are stored on disk ; by default, thumbnails are created with the help of the "convert" command, included into ImageMagick's package. Thumbnails caching allows a very faster thumbnails displaying, but as this thumbnails creation is a little more time and space consuming, you can also disable this option.
The specified command may take two arguments, each of them being displayed as a "%s" string ; the first one is the name of the original file, and the second one is the name of the generated thumbnail.
The default "convert" command line include a '-geometry "150x150>"' value, which just means : convert each image to a thumbnail of 150 x 150 pixels, but keep image ratio so that images are not "squared".
Include hidden files in directories : when this option is checked, GPC looks for hidden files when updating or adding films.
You can also specify parameters for font and image sizes used to display thumbnails.
The "Tools" tab is used to specify command lines which can be used to launch tools : a scanning tool ('xsane' by default), GIMP and Electric Eyes.