On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:41:03 -0600 "Nathan Ingersoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> This is a little off-topic for the thread, but there are some long > term changes I would like to see for epsilon eventually. > > 1. Split thumbnail generation into pluggable processes. If we can > specify external commands for generating thumbnails, we reduce the > amount of code necessary to support new formats. This also gives us > robustness when a dependency mis-behaves and crashes the thumbnailing > process. agreed. a nice way to do really "quick and dirty" thumbnailers via external processes either executed once per file to load, scale save and forget or to load and then save a whole series of files (and provide some form of progress/feedback as it does it - eg via stdout or something). agree on all points here. > 2. Switch to dbus for client to server IPC. Many of the issues > currently with the epsilon daemon stem from some initial problems with > ecore_ipc, and the hacky conversion to ecore_con. Dbus is also > targeted at remote method invocation, which is essentially the goal of > the epsilon daemon communications. nothing against this. > 3. Develop a dbus standard communication protocol with FDO. Ideally, > we could get a protocol adopted by the major desktops which would > allow for a single thumbnailing process to be present regardless of > your application mix. For instance, if you are running nautilus under > E and it handles thumbnailing requests, then we don't need to start a > background epsilon process. i think this is probably the real driver for dbus and i think its a good idea. mind u this can be a huge time sink. imho we should first just do it internally. develop something that works with a view to it being very generic and clean - yet easily able to be modified if needed - at least in small details, or extended. then when its settled - formalise the spec docs and propose? > These don't really help the release schedule for iNDT, but I think > they would create a better long term result. > > On 12/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I wrote (regarding raster's thumb), > > > > > It seems to have an evas-object interface that abstracts away > > > the 'thumb file' concept and just concentrates on giving you the > > > display-object you want for a given input 'uri' and desired size > > > (probably could give more info as well). .... > > > > It's.. kinda nice. :) I wonder if the "fdo standards" could > > be somehow geared more towards providing something like 'interfaces' > > of some sort for things like this.. rather than specifying that one > > should to give large and small image files somewhere. > > > > _____________________________________________________________ > > Dog supplies that give joy to man's best friend. Click Here. > > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2121/fc/Ioyw6i3naZ3vo7pnPMWDZKbC65edgry6H9JU4KlnEAklozN3Ee5KkA/ > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper > > from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going > > mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. > > http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper > from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going > mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. > http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
