Re: code freeze break: thumbnail cleaner

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

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
<mjc avtechpulse com> wrote:
> Hi release team,
>
> gnome-settings-daemon now has a housekeeping plug-in now that purges the
> thumbnail cache. The default max_age for items in the cache is 60 days and
> the default max_size is 64 MB. This works for me, but some have complained
> that this is way too small. For instance:
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2008-September/msg00124.html
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547190
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551944
>
> Two small patches are proposed here:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552680
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=119177
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=119178
>
> to boost max_age to 180 days and max_size to 512 MB. This needs release team
> approval to happen for 2.24.
>
> f-spot now auto-tweaks these parameters, but the cache of heavy f-spot users
> would be pruned heavily the first time they run 2.24 if changes are not
> made.
>
> Could release-team approve/reject in bug 552680?
>

+1

Changing the defaults seems fine to me. Longer term, it would be much
nicer if the size limit would be adaptive to the disk size and
fullness. The out-of-space warning code we have somewhere (g-v-m ?)
could e.g. trigger a thumbnail cleaning.