On Sun, 2016-06-26 at 13:45 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > Hey, > > gnome-desktop, the library, is a remnant of the old "libgnomeui" with > useful widgets that could not be in GTK+, and helper utilities that > might not be ready for merging in GLib. > > Nowadays, gnome-desktop only contains utilities that are shared > between > desktop components (gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-control-center, > gnome- > shell and gnome-initial-setup) and code to create thumbnails. > > The thumbnailing code has been something we've wanted to move to > another part of the stack for a while, as a dependency on API/ABI > unstable gnome-desktop really shouldn't be needed, but the problem is > always "where". > > In https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686895#c20 > Allison mentions D-Bus, or a giomodule. > > I've started shaving the yak slightly by moving images thumbnailing > to > an external process, the same used by every other thumbnailer: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768043 > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768062 > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768064 > > The code needs a bit more work, as I'd want to keep > the G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_PREVIEW_ICON usage within the thumbnailer. > Should > be done before anything else. > > Because I think that it would be nice for GLib/gio to contain both > the > code to generate and consume thumbnails, I'm leaning towards > implementing the API in gio, returning GObjects *, with the pixbuf > processing handled in a giomodule shipped in gdk-pixbuf. > > Another option would be to avoid all the giomodules, and either > implement all the thumbnailing code in GTK+, or maybe the GdkPixbuf- > handling parts in GIO, and non-graphical parts in GLib. > > Using a giomodule would allow us to eventually move away from gdk- > pixbuf (if we are ever going to do this). > > Opinions?
Or we could just move it to gdk-pixbuf, which might be just high enough in the stack to have gio and gdk-pixbuf support. Though that would mean that thumbnailer and consumer would be in different places. _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
