Re: [Tracker] xmp:- file in ~

["Michael Biebl" <mbiebl gmail com>]

2008/2/23, Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com>:
> 2008/2/23, Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com>:
>
> > 2008/2/23, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:
>  >
>  > >
>  >  > apparently this has been fixed by compnerd:
>  >  >  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/194221
>  >
>  >
>  > I don't see, how adding a tif and gif thumbnailer could fix this issue.
>  >
>
>
> I think the culprit is src/tracker-extract/tracker-extract-imagemagick.c:
>
>  #ifdef HAVE_EXEMPI
>
>         gchar *xmp;
>
>         argv[0] = g_strdup ("convert");
>         argv[1] = g_strdup (filename);
>         argv[2] = g_strdup ("xmp:-");
>         argv[3] = NULL;
>
>         if (tracker_spawn (argv, 10, &xmp, &exit_status)) {
>                 if (exit_status == EXIT_SUCCESS && xmp) {
>                         tracker_read_xmp (xmp, strlen (xmp), metadata);
>                 }
>         }
>  #endif
>  }

Does this code actually make any sense at all?
Why do we run convert over the image (which seems to only make an
exact copy of the image).

I'm a bit puzzled atm.

Michael

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