Re: [Tracker] fd.o compliant thumbnailing

[Jon Phillips <jon rejon org>]

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 14:58 +0000, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Erlend Davidson wrote:
>
> > That would require a whole standard for thumbnailers... the thunar ones 
> > take three or four command-line arguments (input file, size, output file 
> > and optionally the URI of the file), this should be sufficient, but 
> > someone might want more and then the standard would break.
>
> not really the same arguments are used by gnome in its gconf based 
> thumbnailers so its already a de facto standard. (A;though I dont know 
> what KDE uses?)
>
> > Incidently tracker uses the same command-line arguments as thunar for 
> > thumbnailers.  Coud you possibly change tracker to use the same 
> > directory as thunar?
>
> thats my point - the only thing not standardised is the location of the 
> scripts and thats why a freedesktop specified location would be 
> preferred by tracker.
>
> In the short term, I can of course check for gnome thumbs using 
> GConfTool (which does not require linking in GConf) and as you say the 
> thunar directory if it exists so patches welcome for that.
>
> feel free to add a bugzilla enhancement request 
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org) to tracker and I will get round to it 
> eventually if no patch is forthcoming

Yeah, fd.o really needs a standard directory of these standards. I
think:

/usr/share/freedesktop.org/XXXXXXXX

That would be extensible and useful by all apps. It would be a good
proposal and I'm sure they have thought of it and/or would be into it.

Jon

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