Thread:Trigger009/@comment-995426-20150728022031

User:Fernando Pandha is reverting my edits to the gallery layouts, and unceremoniously deleted my request they he not do so, so that I couldn't even tell if he had replied until I dug deeper into the edit history of his message wall.

The "landscape" and "square" orientations are inappropriate for a variety of reasons.

It cuts off the edges of the thumbnails where they don't fit the shape, which makes the thumbnails less useful for very tall or very wide images, such as File:Donatello's picture wall.png. It has the overall effect of making the galleries harder to browse through. Example:



vs.

Even for screenshots at standard dimensions, the landscape orientation cuts off the sides of the thumbnail, because the landscape thumbnails are 4:3 dimensions and the 2K12 series screenshots are 16:9 dimensions.

Forcing cropped thumbnails does not make sense, especially if the images themselves are of all different dimensions. I honestly don't care if the thumbnail shapes represent some kind of fashion&mdash;I care about the complete visibility of the thumbnails. 