Re: [Geeqie-devel] Problem with thumbnails

2010-06-10 Thread Jonathan Woithe
Hi Jeffery > >Since the initial thumbnail file is created after the image file the ctime > >of the original thumbnail will always be later than the image file. So > >testing for "thumbnail ctime older than image file" isn't going to work > >reliably - this test will always be true even before any

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Problem with thumbnails

2010-06-10 Thread Jeffery Small
Jonathan Woithe writes: >Since the initial thumbnail file is created after the image file the ctime >of the original thumbnail will always be later than the image file. So >testing for "thumbnail ctime older than image file" isn't going to work >reliably - this test will always be true even befo

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Problem with thumbnails

2010-06-10 Thread Jonathan Woithe
Hi Jeffery > >> 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. > > >If something goes and messes with the cache in this way I think it's >

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Problem with thumbnails

2010-06-10 Thread Jeffery Small
Jonathan Woithe writes: Hi Jonathan: >I'm not entirely sure how geeqie can be expected to detect this particular >sequence of events, let along correct for it. What exactly do you think >geeqie should do in the above case? Geeqie sees that files are changing and updates accordingly. It should

Re: [Geeqie-devel] Problem with thumbnails

2010-06-09 Thread Jonathan Woithe
He Jeffery > 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 g

[Geeqie-devel] Problem with thumbnails

2010-06-09 Thread Jeffery Small
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