On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:08:46 +0100 Benedikt Meurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Stanislav Brabec wrote: > > - Image files in public directories are thumbnailed many times: > > once for each accessing user. > > Sharing thumbnails might be a security problem. > > > - Thumbnails on removable media are thumbnailed many times: once for > > each machine, where medium is accessed > > IIRC the standard already covers this, tho it's not implemented in Xfce > and GNOME. > > > - Thumbnail files are often larger than images itself, especially for > > jpeg images below 20kB in size. > > The software can detect this and load the JPEG directly. > > > - There is a very small chance to detect deleted images and delete > > corresponding thumbnail. > > The file manager should clean up the thumbnails when deleting files. > > > Use unique inode_number/volume_id instead of file_path. > > This will not work with certain FUSE file systems, that generate unique > inodes on-demand, because it's likely that the inodes will be different > each time the file system is mounted. > > > Haw widely used desktop-neutral thumbnailing library understanding many > > embedded thumbnails and providing thumbnailing for images without > > embedded thumbnail. > > I think external thumbnailer as used by Thunar/Nautilus are better, > because it's more flexible and avoids loading various libraries required > to generate thumbnails for different formats into the processes. > > Using .desktop files to register thumbnailers instead of GConf should be > fine for desktop-neutral usage. > > > Allow jpeg thumbnails. > > Aside from maybe a few bytes saved per thumbnail, why would you want to > do this? it's nto a few bytes. for 128x128 sizes thumbs a thumbnail can go from a 20k png to a 2k jpeg very very very easily. the jpeg thumbs invariably are significantly smaller than the png ones (depending on the quality level you are happy with). over the space of a few thousand thumbnails this make a BIG difference. > > Thumbnails can use file system extended attributes. > > Not every file system supports that. What would be stored in the > extended attributes anyway? > > Benedikt > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
