I'm a user not a developer. Not anymore anyway. I'm retired.
My answer would be $PATH-TO-ORIGNAL-IMAGE/thumbnails, which mirrors a
convenient way to organize files on a web server file system.
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 8:35 AM, colin clark <ccl...@mcb.net> wrote:
> Someone recently posted a message on github pointing out a problem with
> thumbnail cache folders.
> In addition to this problem, the code seems to be inconsistent in where it
> thinks the cache should be.
>
> Geeqie can save thumbnails is two formats:
> Standard format as specified in the freedesktop docs; all thumbnails in a
> single folder, with a filename created by a MD5 hash.
> or,
> Geeqie format, in a hierarchical tree replicating the location of the
> source
> images, and with a filename of the original source appended by .png.
>
> The standard (freedesktop) cache location is clearly defined:
> $XDG_CACHE_HOME/thumbnails
> or, if the environment variable is not set:
> $HOME/.cache/thumbnails
>
> But where should the Geeqie format thumbnails be cached?
> 1. $HOME/.cache/geeqie/thumbnails (even if the XDG environment variable is
> set)
> 2. $XDG_CACHE_HOME/geeqie/thumbnails
> 3. $XDG_CACHE_HOME/thumbnails/geeqie/
> 4. None of the above?
>
>
>
>
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