Announce: Thumbnail Managing Standard 0.4 (fwd)

[Jens Finke <jens triq net>]

Hello,

on the xdg-list freedesktop org we are discussing a general way for
storing thumbnails across the desktops currently. You can find the thread
started with the announcement below in the archives:
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/xdg-list/2001-December/000213.html

I've got response from the Gimp, Rox-Desktop and Gnome developers, but
heard nothing from KDE so far. I think it would be a great user visible
enhancement for all the desktops if a program can reuse thumbnails
generated by other programs. Even across the desktops.

Please redirect (or at lest cc) all replies to the
xdg-list freedesktop org, since this should be the main discussing
platform.

Regards,

   Jens

-- 
"Wer die Freiheit aufgibt, um Sicherheit zu gewinnen, wird am Ende beides
verlieren." -- Benjamin Franklin

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:01:09 +0100 (CET)
From: Jens Finke <jens triq net>
To: xdg-list freedesktop org
Subject: Announce: Thumbnail Managing Standard 0.4

Hello,

there is a reworked version of the Thumbnail Managing Standard. It's
purpose is to define a standard way for caching little file previews in
form of png images.

You can find the latest version here: http:triq.net/~pearl/thumb-spec.php

There are some major changes:

* Dropped distinction between local/global .thumbnails dir => introduced
more problems than it solved.

* The cache directory structure bases now on a hash mechanism, so you
don't have to recreate the whole file path anymore. => Fast in the usual
case, enables equal handling of all kind of filetypes and filelocations
(less special cases), fixed filename length, easy to implement.

* Consider locking of directories for a program to prevent other programs
accessing the same files at the same time.

* Distinction between required and optional resp. filetype specific PNG
keys.


Thanks to all the people who gave me valueable feedback regarding the
previous versions of the TMS.

Regards,

   Jens

-- 
"Wer die Freiheit aufgibt, um Sicherheit zu gewinnen, wird am Ende beides
verlieren." -- Benjamin Franklin