Oh, I think I misunderstood the label; it means "put thumbnails in .thumbnails in the same directory as the image" not "put thumbnails into ~/.thumbnails". I can the the utility in that, the label just needs to be a bit clearer.
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 12:19 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > 2.) In Edit -> Preferences -> General -> Thumbnails, I don't > understand the option "Cache thumbnails into .thumbnails", because > that *is* where the shared thumbnail cache is (or at least its > subdirectories). I think the optimal thing to do is actually remove > *both* of these options, and just always use the industry-standard > shared cache. It's unclear from the interface what happens when both > of these options are unchecked, which is poor if either is kept. (The > answer is that the cache becomes .geeqie/thumbnails.) > > I see your simplicity point, but IMHO it's extremely broken from a > security/privacy viewpoint for a program to take data from one > filesystem and write it into another filesystem.. The current options > setup allows thumbnails in .thumbnails so the thumbs are with the > images. I actually do this always, not for paranoia, but so I can rsync > the thumbnails with the images. > > But I would be happy with > > put thumbs in standard place > vs > put thumbs with images in .thumbnails > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list > Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
