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Prevent users from "losing" the thumbnail bar

The thumbnail bar can be freely resized by users. It is quite easy to resize it in a way that collapses it to a size of zero which makes the bar invisible. Prior to this commit, the only way to get it back is by finding the invisble drag handler and resizing it to a non-zero size. Not even an application restart helps. This isn't intuitive at all.

With this commit, the bar being invisible because of a resize is treated similarly to the bar being hidden through a button press. This means that the "Show Thumbnails" button always works in toggling the visibility of the bar even if it has been resized to 0 by a user prior to that.

I decided to not do the easy fix of disallowing users to resize the bar to 0 because it is a very intuitive way of hiding the bar and preventing users from hiding it this way seems weird to me.

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