On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 14:58 +0000, Jamie McCracken wrote: > Erlend Davidson wrote: > > > That would require a whole standard for thumbnailers... the thunar ones > > take three or four command-line arguments (input file, size, output file > > and optionally the URI of the file), this should be sufficient, but > > someone might want more and then the standard would break. > > not really the same arguments are used by gnome in its gconf based > thumbnailers so its already a de facto standard. (A;though I dont know > what KDE uses?) > > > > > Incidently tracker uses the same command-line arguments as thunar for > > thumbnailers. Coud you possibly change tracker to use the same > > directory as thunar? > > thats my point - the only thing not standardised is the location of the > scripts and thats why a freedesktop specified location would be > preferred by tracker. > > In the short term, I can of course check for gnome thumbs using > GConfTool (which does not require linking in GConf) and as you say the > thunar directory if it exists so patches welcome for that. > > feel free to add a bugzilla enhancement request > (http://bugzilla.gnome.org) to tracker and I will get round to it > eventually if no patch is forthcoming
Yeah, fd.o really needs a standard directory of these standards. I think: /usr/share/freedesktop.org/XXXXXXXX That would be extensible and useful by all apps. It would be a good proposal and I'm sure they have thought of it and/or would be into it. Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
