On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:55:52 +0200 Alexander Larsson <al...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 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. Looks fine to me. Not sure we need hashed-normal/ and hashed-failed/ directories because subdirectories inside ~/.thumbnails/normal and ~/.thumbnails/failed wouldn't conflict with the old thumbnail files. (Personally, I'd like to propose to merge all the failed/ subdirectories into a single directory -- failed/ -- because IMHO the failed/ concept is just broken. But that's another story.) - Jannis
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