Re: Confused about nautilus thumbnails

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:17 +1100, Nyall wrote:
> I started trying to implement this and was making reasonable progress,
> but hit a problem. What I've found is that
> g_file_info_get_attribute_byte_string only returns files
> in .thumbnails/normal when asked for G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_THUMBNAIL_PATH
> I'd need a similar attribute for G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_LARGE_THUMBNAIL_PATH,
> which would look in .thumbnails/large
> So I'm not sure how to proceed from here - what's the correct procedure
> for getting something like this implemented in gio?

Implement and file a bug against glib in bugzilla. It also needs
corresponding work in gvfs.

Also, you need to make sure that nautilus doesn't query for this
attribute for every file (only those its needed for), as this would make
reading all directories slower.