Re: RFC: preview files

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:04 PM, David Zeuthen <david fubar dk> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> So one interesting feature of digital cameras is that they're capable of
> generating thumbnails on the device side. This is actually pretty useful
> when importing photos; instead of downloading hundreds images (each
> 5-10MB on my Canon EOS 5D DSLR) for the import dialog, one can download
> the previews (typically ~10KB of size 160x120).
>
> I've written a patch for the gphoto2 backend to do this.
>
> First, there's a GIO patch to introduce two new properties preview::uri
> and preview::uri-original that links the original file with the preview
> file. See [1] for gvfs-info output.

One obvious question here is, if we define a preview attribute, it
will probably be expected to be set for files which have a thumbnail
in ~/.thumbnails, too ?