Martin Meyer wrote: > The thumbnailer spec [3] points to the ~/.thumbnails directory for the > cache of specific-sized thumbnails. Although I call them cache, it is > arguable that they may be user data. The issue I have is that the > basedir spec [4] specifies an environment variable $XDG_CACHE_HOME > which is intended as the base for all "user-specific non-essential > (cached) data". I feel that the thumbnail cache would fit in there. Is > there a chance of getting the spec changed to point to > $XDG_CACHE_HOME/thumbnails instead perhaps? Is it even open for > discussion?
Martin, Yes, it's open for discussion. Is it fundamentally worth the effort? Do you have suggestions for managing the transition, if it occurred? ".thumbnails" is hard-coded in a LOT of files (libgnomeui, nautilus, glib/gfile, gthumb, gnome-settings-daemon, etc...) On the gnome side, you would need to patch every instance of ".thumbnails". (Maybe we need a gnome_thumbnail_get_cache_dir function.) The gnome-settings-daemon housekeeping plug-in would need to be modified to sweep both the old and new locations. On a side note, your original post is missing the reference ([1], etc). - Mike _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
