[Shotwell] Some observations and criticisms

[Mark Trompell]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Adam Dingle <adam at yorba.org> wrote:
>
> Yes, thumbnail generation is the bottleneck when importing from disk.
> Not sure why GTthumb is faster; we should do a head-to-head comparison
> at some point.

One Xfce dev created tumbler a thumbnailing service using dbus.
Not sure if that would help.
It doesn't depend on Xfce at all and will be used in maemo 6 too.

http://gezeiten.org/post/2009/10/Using-Tumbler-in-Client-Applications
http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/2009/10/28/tumbler
http://gezeiten.org/tag/tumbler

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Mark Trompell

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