Laurent Aguerreche wrote: > Hello, > > currently trackerd generates thumbnails for PDF files. I just wonder > whether it is useful! > > To have this feature, trackerd calls evince (which depends on many > components of X and GNOME...) and those calls slowdown a little bit > trackerd. > > Graphical shells, like Nautilus, Konqueror or Thunar, are supposed to > know how to make thumbnails from files, and I have already many > generated thumbnails in ~/.thumbnails. So I think that trackerd should > not do thumbnails and let other programs do it by themselves. > > Am I missing something? > >
Yes. Doing it in tracker means you wont have to wait for file managers to thumbnail. However: 1) thumbnails should be optional so feel free to add an option to disable them. 2) They dont use the freedesktop spec for thumbnails yet. This is a bug and a fix would be nice http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2004-October/005067.html 3) long term plan is to add *optional* gconf facility for replacing the config file and getting access to all the the thumbnailers defined in gconf (see keys /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers in gconf-editor) patches for any of the above is welcome :) -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
