On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 01:12 +0200, David Faure wrote: > On Friday 29 August 2008, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
[cut] > > This sounds overly complicated to me. Now you're assuming that any app > > that wants to load thumbnails is also capable of figuring out the > > mime-type of the file it wants to load. > > [cut] > I agree, it's the job of that "service" to figure out the mimetype (and > therefore the actual backend) to use. > [cut] > Hmm, maybe that's as simple as saying that: > org.freedesktop.thumbnailer.generic is used by default, and that one can > find out and call a org.freedesktop.thumbnailer.<specific mime type> service > if it doesn't know how to handle that mimetype itself. I'll try to write the draft of the specification this way. At Maemo we will implement a daemon for our own use-case and if this kind of DBus stuff turns out to be impractical then we'll immediately notice this during the implementing of our case. -- Philip Van Hoof, freelance software developer home: me at pvanhoof dot be gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org http://pvanhoof.be/blog http://codeminded.be _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list