On 4/17/05, Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hans Meine wrote: > > On Sunday 17 April 2005 13:19, Dirk Meyer wrote: > >> Right now my version here supports both, the old vfs and the > >> .thumbnails style. But do we need both? To keep the code cleaner, I > >> want to remove the vfs way of thumbnailing. Comments on that? > > Seems like a good idea to me. :-) (Clean code with no *real* disadvantage.) > > Right. It's much cleaner in the .thumbnail dir. > > >> [...] Second: do we need creating thumbnails with the cache helper? > >> Right now thumbnails are created on the fly, meaning you enter an > >> image dir and you see only the mimetype icon and file after file, the > >> image is shown (like other image viewers do). So what about removing > >> the thumbnail support in the cache helper? > > > What about making the thumbnail creation optional with a cmdline > > option? E.g. "freevo cache" would skip thumbnails, but "freevo > > cache --thumbnails" (or --all/--complete/whatever) would also create > > them. > > OK, sounds simple. > > > By the way, this reminds me of a bug I found these days: If you link > > freevo to "cache" to make the helper callable directly, the "-h" > > cmdline argument is still handled by freevo; e.g. "cache -h" gives > > the freevo help, in contrast to "freevo cache -h" which displays the > > help screen of cache.py. > > I have to look into this. If the bug is still there in 2 weeks, send > this again :) > > >> To go further: the mediadb also stores the information in the > >> vfs. What about creating LIB_DIR/medtadb and store all cache files > >> there. Maybe the same for the .raw files of fxd files (pickled for > >> faster access). CACHE_DIR/fxd should do the trick. Doing that, the vfs > >> would be clean, containing only the files that are created by the > >> user. > > That'd reveal a whole new idea of the vfs directory; I always > > wondered why it's called "vfs" when it's more or less a cache > > directory.. ;-) > > The real idea behind is: how to add a fxd or a cover to a read only > directory? That's why I created the vfs, nothing more. And we should > go back to this idea. Is it not possible to create a directory in memory for readonly devices?
> > Dischi > > -- > Can I trade this job for what's behind door 1? > > > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
