Hey, Two things, one simple.. the link from
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications?action=show&redirect=Standards pointing to the thumbnail spec http://jens.triq.net/thumbnail-spec/index.html doesn't work. Probably we should host this spec in fd.o SCM and also host the latest version on fd.o servers just as like we do with other specs. Second, I'd like to patch the spec with some additions for .thumblocal support; here's a copy of the latest that the Wayback machine could give me http://web.archive.org/web/20070824034129/jens.triq.net/thumbnail-spec/local.html There are two things to this - First I'm unsure whether .thumblocal is to be stored at the root of the media or in each subdirectory of the media. The latter is probably preferable to avoid looking up the mount point. Suggest to clarify this in the spec. - Second, I'd like to change some of the language to allow writing to .thumblocal. This is needed for encrypted file systems and with the prevalence of support of LUKS on USB sticks this is becoming a sticky issue. See this GNOME bug report for more details http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518757 Basically, applications/desktops would write thumbnails to .thumblocal if, and only if, the file to thumbnail is encrypted. The rationale for this is to avoid leaking information from an encrypted mount into $HOME which may be unencrypted. Thanks for considering this. David _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
