It's implemented following a freedesktop.org standard

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On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 18:24 +0000, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> On 11/01/07, Hubert Figuiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > George Talusan wrote:
> > > I saw this too after I erased my ~/.thumbnails directory -- it was large
> > > at 6GB.  After erasing it, F-Spot, I think, tried regenerating
> > > thumbnails for all of my 50,000 pictures.  It took a long time and I
> > > think it stalled a few times.  I had to restart the application before it 
> > > got to
> > > the point where the slowness went away.
> >
> > 50K files in a directory (.thumbnails/normal) is very heavy duty....
> > even on Linux.
> 
> Argh! Who implemented this? One single folder with lots of file will
> be slow on almost all filesystems. It needs to either be partitioned
> or to store thumbnails in the DB.
> 
> And another thing - why the hell are the thumbnails in PNG???? Just
> taking such thumbnail and resaving it as 50% quality JPEG reduces the
> size tenfold. I can be that it also improves the speed too.
> 
> Can we, please fix that? ANd along the way, can we make Gnome people
> fix nautilus too?
> 
-- 
Stephane Delcroix
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