Re: GnomeDesktopThumbnail API replacement

2018-02-04 Thread Debarshi Ray
On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 10:33:58PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > But we could make some internal changes to that API to allow you to > pass associated metadata, maybe, so you could do something like: > - tell the thumbnail API to only consider this private thumbnailer you > have, and no other > -

Re: GnomeDesktopThumbnail API replacement

2018-02-01 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2018-01-30 at 14:45 +, Debarshi Ray wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 02:06:01PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Tue, 2018-01-30 at 11:06 +, Debarshi Ray wrote: > > > Also, it's not primarily about the location of the cache but the > > > thumbnailer. To me, the real value in

Re: GnomeDesktopThumbnail API replacement

2018-01-30 Thread Debarshi Ray
On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 02:06:01PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Tue, 2018-01-30 at 11:06 +, Debarshi Ray wrote: > > Also, it's not primarily about the location of the cache but the > > thumbnailer. To me, the real value in using the generic thumbnailers > > is not having to worry about

Re: GnomeDesktopThumbnail API replacement

2018-01-30 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Tue, 2018-01-30 at 11:06 +, Debarshi Ray wrote: > Hey, > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 10:46:30AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 15:42 +, Debarshi Ray wrote: > > > However, the edits are application-specific [2], so it is not > > > reasonable to expect the generic

Re: GnomeDesktopThumbnail API replacement

2018-01-30 Thread Debarshi Ray
Hey, On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 10:46:30AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 15:42 +, Debarshi Ray wrote: > > However, the edits are application-specific [2], so it is not > > reasonable to expect the generic OS-wide thumbnailers to be able to > > handle them. > > This is

Re: GnomeDesktopThumbnail API replacement

2018-01-30 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2018-01-29 at 15:42 +, Debarshi Ray wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 12:46:51PM +, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > On 22 January 2018 at 09:28, Philip Withnall > k> wrote: > > > From the GLib side of things, my thoughts are that this > > > shouldn???t live > > >

Re: GnomeDesktopThumbnail API replacement

2018-01-29 Thread Debarshi Ray
On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 12:46:51PM +, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On 22 January 2018 at 09:28, Philip Withnall wrote: > > From the GLib side of things, my thoughts are that this shouldn???t live > > in GLib, since it deals with pixbufs. As long as it integrates with > >

Re: GnomeDesktopThumbnail API replacement

2018-01-29 Thread Debarshi Ray
Hey, As a heavy user of the thumbnailing APIs, I had promised Bastien to comment on this thread, but I wanted to coherently compile my thoughts before doing that. Some releases ago, I switched GNOME Photos to a custom thumbnailing infrastructure. I have tried to summarise it here:

Re: GnomeDesktopThumbnail API replacement

2018-01-22 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 15:22 +0100, Carlos Garnacho wrote: > Hey, > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 6:15 PM, Bastien Nocera > wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 13:15 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > I wanted to start a discussion about replacing > > >

Re: GnomeDesktopThumbnail API replacement

2018-01-22 Thread Carlos Garnacho
Hey, On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 6:15 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 13:15 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> Hey, >> >> I wanted to start a discussion about replacing GnomeDesktopThumbnail >> with an API that would live in the GLib/GTK+ stack. > >> >> To sum up,

Re: GnomeDesktopThumbnail API replacement

2018-01-22 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 12:46 +, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On 22 January 2018 at 09:28, Philip Withnall > wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 18:15 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 13:15 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > Hey, > > > > > > > > I

Re: GnomeDesktopThumbnail API replacement

2018-01-22 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On 22 January 2018 at 09:28, Philip Withnall wrote: > On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 18:15 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 13:15 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: >> > Hey, >> > >> > I wanted to start a discussion about replacing >> > GnomeDesktopThumbnail >> >

Re: GnomeDesktopThumbnail API replacement

2018-01-22 Thread Bastien Nocera
Hey Philip, On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 09:28 +, Philip Withnall wrote: > On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 18:15 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 13:15 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > I wanted to start a discussion about replacing > > > GnomeDesktopThumbnail > > >

Re: GnomeDesktopThumbnail API replacement

2018-01-22 Thread Philip Withnall
On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 18:15 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 13:15 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I wanted to start a discussion about replacing > > GnomeDesktopThumbnail > > with an API that would live in the GLib/GTK+ stack. > > From the GLib side of