Front of Card Image not the default

[AndyM48]

If I choose an image for the front of the card it is not automatically shown as the thumbnail for that card. I wonder what the thought process was behind this decision?

[TheLastProject]

Originally the thumbnail was a completely different size so the front image wouldn't fit in the thumbnail area well.

Nowadays the sizes are the same so it might make sense to have this behaviour (especially because for some reason people don't seem to be able to find the thumbnail setting).

However, that brings up the question...
Should the preview automatically use thumbnail -> front -> back (whichever exists)? Should it offer to set the thumbnail when setting the front image? Should it always offer this or only if the thumbnail hasn't been set? (Probably always).

Should be pretty easy to display a dialog box after setting the front image to ask to use it as thumbnail (would it confuse users when changing the back image?)

[AndyM48]

I would think that if a front image is selected it should automatically be set to the thumbnail view. Subsequently setting a thumbnail should override any existing thumbnail.

I doubt anyone would want the back image to be used as the thumbnail, but if they did, then they could use the edit thumbnail to override the existing thumbnail.

Simple and no need for any new dialog boxes.

[TheLastProject]

I hacked up a PoC yesterday in #1930 but after testing it I'm not quite sure if this is the best flow.

Catima has never shown the front or back image as thumbnail before. In the many years it has existed, many users have surely used this functionality to store unrelated images in it that are unsuitable as thumbnails and using those as thumbnails without any user intervention is likely to cause frustrating experiences (even my own test data has some cases like that, leading to me not being able to recognize the cards anymore).

I think #1675 is probably a much better idea to implement, possibly together with asking the users when they set a new front/back image if they also want to set it as thumbnail, to keep users in control. While I generally prefer to bother users with questions less, the one extra Yes/No seems to be worth reducing the frustrations and confusion many users may run into when implemented this way.

[AndyM48]

I am sure that you are right.

the one extra Yes/No seems to be worth ...

May be default to Yes?