>>>>> "Omari" == Omari Stephens <x...@csail.mit.edu> writes:
Omari> On 08/07/2012 07:27 PM, John Stoffel wrote: >> vinit> The current version of geeqie1.1 that vladimir has putted, is vinit> not been able to recognize the image files if the file names of vinit> these file do not end with one of the standard image file vinit> extension. I think the application should look into the vinit> directory for all the image files based on their format rather vinit> than their file extension. like how the nautilus, the default vinit> file browser for gnome does. it does it for all media files. i vinit> think geeqie should have this feature. >> >> It's a good idea, but maybe have it as an option instead? If the >> option is on (default off), geeqie does the equivilent of a 'file' >> command on each file to see if it can determine the image type. >> >> And if you want to whip up a patch, even just an example one, I'm sure >> that would be an incentive to get it into the app. Omari> If it's an option, it should default to off. That's what I suggested too. Omari> Having to fork() and read() for every single file in a Omari> directory is drastically more expensive than just doing a Omari> single scandir() on the containing directory. Well, since we already build thumbnails when we enter a directory, it might only need to do this work when it finds a file it doesn't recognize in terms of extension. Omari> That said, I do question just how useful or widely-used it Omari> would be. How many people (1) have images which are stored Omari> without appropriate file extensions, and (2) use, or would use, Omari> geeqie rather than something less powerful/more user-friendly? I think I'd like to have this, since sometimes I have geeqie list files in my thumbnail view which it can't open for various reasons. Omari> Given how many dark, unmaintained corners geeqie has already, I Omari> definitely think we should make sure that the features we add Omari> have sufficient value. Sure, but if it's not expensive to implement as a test... what hurt can it do? *grin* I took a quick look throug the code, but I didn't find the proper routines, but I'm also not up on the gtk toolkit either, so I don't know what to look for. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Geeqie-devel mailing list Geeqie-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geeqie-devel
