In Geeqie v1.0 there is still a serious problem with thumbnail management. I am on a Solaris 10 SPARC system running the native Gnome desktop manager.
To see the problem, create a new directory populated with 6 images named image_1.jpg, image_2.jpg, ..., image_6.jpg. Point geeqie at it and let it create the thumbnails for the images. (I am using the shared thumbnail location, so everything goes into ~/.thumbnails, but I do not think that this has anything to do with the problem). Now, from the commandline, remove image_2.jpg. Geeqie will update properly, dropping that image from the display. Now, from the commandline, renumber the images as image_1.jpg through image_5.jpg so that 3->2, 4->3, 5->4 and 6->5. What you will see is that the old thumbnails for image 2 through 5 will now be reused, and all thumbnails will be incorrect for these pictures. This is now a very serious issue as there does not appear to be a way to fix this problem short of destroying the entire thumbnail cache and having to rebuild all stored thumbnails from scratch. On the thumbnail cache maintenance menu, you might think that "Create (render) thumbnails for the specific folder" might address the problem, but it fails to rebuild the thumbnails, thinking that they already exist. The solution to this problem is to force thumbnails to be updated when out of date, by comparing a timestamp to the original file. Also, there needs to be an option (preferably a right-click option in the thumbnail window), that forces thumbnails to be recreated in the current folder. Maybe the refresh option could be made to do this. I really love all the work that has and is being done on geeqie, but this particular problem is causing me quit a bit of difficulties and I would really appreciate seeing it fixed. Thanks. -- C. Jeffery Small j...@cjsa.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
