Gustavo wrote: > I wonder if it's not better to make their thumbnailer suck less (dump > jpg thumbnailer, use code from EPEG or Evas) instead of adding all > this complexity. > > And still we cannot select custom thumbnail sizes, so useless for > media centers and lots of fancy systems that might choose something > different than 2-power numbers like square 128 and 256. >
And this reminds me of the argument Carsten and I had over evas image size-load-options, where I felt it useless and confusing to have such options that only worked sometimes for some formats some sizes.. rather than always for all formats and sizes. > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Vincent Torri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> in case your have not subscribed to the xcd ML >> >> Vincent >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:52:53 +0100 >> From: Philip Van Hoof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: Prototype thumbnailer now has a Epeg plugin >> >> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 13:38 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote: >> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I implemented a plugin that uses Carsten's Epeg library to create >>> thumbnails of Jpeg files[3]. >>> >> This EPeg support made me conclude that the specialized thumbnailers do >> need a URI-scheme support registration. But not for tackling the VFS >> issue. >> >> The reason is that you can have a thumbnailer R that doesn't support >> remote URI schemes, and you can have a thumbnailer K, supporting the >> same MIME types as R, that does support remote URI schemes. >> >> For example the EPeg thumbnailer doesn't support remote URIs, because >> the library EPeg only works with local paths. The GdkPixbuf based >> thumbnailer supports both remote and local URIs, as the GdkPixbuf based >> thumbnailer uses GIO and GInputStream to load the image from. >> >> This means that the generic thumbnailer needs to elect the GdkPixbuf >> based one in case of a URI-scheme that is not file and a MIME type that >> is image/jpeg. >> >> However >> >> In case the URI-scheme is "file" and the MIME typs is "image/jpeg", it >> instead needs to elect the EPeg based thumbnailer. >> >> At the "Registering your thumbnailer" section [1] I added support for >> this use-case to the specification. >> >> $XDG_DATA_DIRS/thumbnailers/com.rasterman.Thumbnailer.service: >> >> [D-BUS Thumbnailer] >> Name=com.rasterman.Thumbnailer >> MimeTypes=image/jpeg >> Comment=The great EPeg thumbnailer >> UriSchemes=file >> >> $XDG_DATA_DIRS/thumbnailers/org.gnome.Thumbnailer.service: >> >> [D-BUS Thumbnailer] >> Name=org.gnome.Thumbnailer >> MimeTypes=image/jpeg;image/png;... >> Comment=The also great GNOME thumbnailer, but less fast than EPeg >> UriSchemes=file;sftp;ftp;http;smb;nfs;dav >> >> To make sure that the EPeg one is elected for local files that are JPegs >> you either make sure com.rasterman.Thumbnailer.service's mtime is more >> recent than org.gnome.Thumbnailer.service and/or you write an overrides: >> >> $XDG_DATA_DIRS/thumbnailers/overrides: >> >> [file-image/jpeg] >> Name=com.rasterman.Thumbnailer >> >> ps. The prototype [2] is adapted for this. >> >> >> [1] >> http://live.gnome.org/ThumbnailerSpec#head-2a0cd233f583dcde553c0a8b5150fa737f73cdce >> [2] https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk/hildon-thumbnail/ >> >> hf >> >> -- >> Philip Van Hoof, freelance software developer >> home: me at pvanhoof dot be >> gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org >> http://pvanhoof.be/blog >> http://codeminded.be >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xdg mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> enlightenment-devel mailing list >> enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel >> >> > > > > ____________________________________________________________ Click to receive credit card help and get out of debt fast. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3m2DVIliupxPqMXcSVUO7zUHAynXq9mPlmv8GaYqV53OaIgs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
