Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.9 XCF files and digiKam, gnome file browsers, etc



On 03/15/2016 10:51 AM, Kevin Payne wrote:
A very quick bit of rummaging round in source code leads me to libgimpthumb\gimpthumb-utils.c

Where it shows a fall-back if the thumbnails directory cannot be created - it uses the tmp dir instead.

Kevin

Hmm, https://specifications.freedesktop.org/thumbnail-spec/thumbnail-spec-latest.html#DIRECTORY says the "normal" place for the thumbnail directory is $XDG_CACHE_HOME/thumbnails/ and the "normal" location for $XDG_CACHE_HOME is /$HOME/.cache.

For whatever reason on my computer $XDG_CACHE_HOME is set to /tmp/elle/.cache. So that's probably why GIMP is writing thumbnails to the tmp folder.

If I start GIMP by adding the line:

export XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/elle/.cache

then GIMP saves thumbnails to /home/elle/.cache/thumbnails.

The thumbnail contains information that points to the corresponding XCF file, for example:

Description : Thumbnail of file:///home/elle/edit/digiKam/working/080810-2252-1855-house-rainbow.xcf
Software : GIMP 2.9.3
Thumb URI : file:///home/elle/edit/digiKam/working/080810-2252-1855-house-rainbow.xcf

digiKam doesn't offer the option of adding a hidden folder to the database.

Copying the thumbnail folder to a folder that digiKam monitors and trying to open the correspoinding XCF file by opening the the thumbnail just opens the thumbnail itself, not the XCF file.

Are there any image/file browsers that can use the uri location information in the thumbnail to open the corresponding XCF file rather than the actual thumbnail png?

I mean besides Nautilus. I don't want to install Nautilus on my computer as it would mean making considerable changes to my Gentoo installation.

As an aside, https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html says $XDG_CACHE_HOME is for "user-specific non-essential (cached) data".

It seems to me that the thumbnails that make it possible to browse one's XCF files don't count as "non-essential". As it is, for the thumbnails to be useful I'd have to use GIMP to recreate thumbnails for the 500 or so XCF files currently indexed by digiKam, and that would take an enormouse amount of time to accomplish.

Thumbnail browsing is at best a temporary and fragile workaround for using an image DAM software like digiKam, that can make its own thumbnails (except for GIMP 2.9 XCF files), or at least can read a thumbnail already embedded in the image file.

Are GIMP 2.9 XCF files saved to disk with embedded thumbnails?

Best,
Elle


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