Re: IDEA: gmc and .xvpics

[bob kehs ksd org]

How about a combination of the 2. EE is slower, and XV creates garbage
directories.

use the XV method of file saving and EE's directory method.

On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, James M. Cape wrote:

> "Szabo, Balazs" wrote:
> > 
> > ||   >   What   about   using  the   .xvpics   files   when   displaying
> > image-directories
> > ||  >  in gmc?  gimp  (guash)  can generate  it  (it  will be  very  low
> > quality, but
> > || >  it can  do this). gimp  is also  part of the  gnome, that's  why I
> > think
> > || > this would not be wrong...
> > ||
> > || Can you describe what the format for .xvpics is?
> > 
> > As I  saw in the source  file (gimp-plugins-unstable/xvthumb/xvthumb.c),
> > it  is a  simple  uncompressed small  picture. This  format  is used  by
> > gimp, guash (Gimp Users Another SHell), and XV).
> > I think  this could be  godd, if  it would be  adopted not only  by gmc,
> > but by ee also. I think ee's thumbnail-generation is quite slow...
> > 
> > dLux
> 
> But I dislike how XV, Guash, and now Gimp 1.1.2, drop extraeneous
> .xvpics directories all about my home directory. I use Gimp to edit
> images for my website, and I don't like having to delete those .xvpics
> directories every time before I upload. EE has a superior scheme, IMO,
> in dropping all the thumbnails from accross the system into the .ee
> directory, rather than scattering them all about. Removing them is so
> much easier with EE.
> 
>     Jim Cape
>     http://www.jcinteractive.com
> 
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