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Gallery: make prettier thumbnails
The thumbnails in the gallery are mostly generated on the fly by nbsite
. While this is useful to make sure they are in sync with the notebook output and it's somewhat easier to maintain, this has a few drawbacks:
- thumbnails should be crafted with care to make the gallery prettier (e.g. they should be squarish)
- it makes the docs build slower
- it makes the docs build more difficult to set up as you need some browser extension to save Bokeh figures
So let's make some nice thumbnails. When they're built, they'll need to be hosted on S3 as done by e.g. Panel for nbsite
to fetch them when it builds the site.
nbsite_gallery_conf = {
....
'thumbnail_url': 'https://assets.holoviews.org/panel/thumbnails',
...
}
https://github.com/holoviz/hvplot/pull/1261 added the auto-generated thumbnails to S3. The next step will be to make prettier thumbnails.