On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 12:24 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote: > Dear xdg list, > > I originally wrote this email to Jens Finke and Olivier Sessink (CC), > since both of them wrote the freedesktop.org thumbnail spec. However, > none of them replied so I'm sending it here. > > > The current thumbnail spec [1] is problematic because it proposed to put > all thumbnails of a certain category (for instance "normal") into one > single directory. However, from a performance point of view it makes > sense to group the thumbnails via parent URI as proposed under [2] in > 2007 - so that client applications can tell the OS to pre-load all the > files for a certain directory as it is opened. > > Together with that migration, it makes IMO sense to put the thumbnails > into ~/.cache/thumbnails in accordance with the XDG base directory > specification [3], and maybe add a per-directory cache files for storing > the last cached icon size, which would allow file managers and other > users that have a flexible icon layout to calculate their layout BEFORE > having loaded all thumbnails. > > Do you plan any such modifications? The fact that the spec is not hosted > on freedesktop.org seems to be a bit unexpected, too. Is there any > particular reason for that?
I don't think anyone in particular is working on this right now, and I don't have much time atm. But I for sure think its a good idea. The current scheme is a sore performance issue for many. If you're interested in working on this and if other people agree that its a good idea it would be great if you could do this work. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg