On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 00:04 +0100, Erlend Davidson wrote: > On 12/04/2008, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just wanted to say I like tracker because it's small > and does a good job - thanks for it. > > I have a request having to do with its thumbnails (I > like having them, don't use gnome/kde/xfce so don't > know what else would generate them so don't want to > turn it off in tracker). > > The request is that: > > a) tracker use an app-local thumbnails dir, such as > ~/.cache/tracker/thumbnails, which I have seen other > apps keeping data local for themselves like this > > AFAIK they can't do this: it breaks the freedesktop.org thumbnail > storage specification. > > > or > > b) allow a ./configure option to specify where they > should go > > That would still break the spec. > > > or > > c) during routine indexing if tracker discovers > thumbnails that used to exist but are now gone it can > regenerate them? > > > Part of the reason for the request is because I see > that if I delete a thumbnail, tracker will no longer > display its associated hit in tracker search GUI. IOW > if I delete everything in ~/.thumbnails and do a > tracker search, 0 results are returned. > > IMHO tracker-search-tool should generate thumbnails. That's what > file-managers do, and in many ways t-s-t is like a file-manager.
we could do that - the only reason we dont currently is becasue gnome-search-tool does not (and TST is a fork of that) _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
