Dne středa 28 leden 2009 Greg Troxel napsal(a):
>   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.. 

From this point of view it is almost impossible to have a secure system.
The same data may for example end up in swap.

> 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

We should definitely use the standard, but I am not sure how to keep 
compatibility.

http://jens.triq.net/thumbnail-spec/local.html

Vladimir



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