Re: [Tracker] thumbnails location

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 00:04 +0100, Erlend Davidson wrote:
> On 12/04/2008, mike <mhardy_mail yahoo com> wrote:
>         I just wanted to say I like tracker because it's small
>         and does a good job - thanks for it.
>         
>         I have a request having to do with its thumbnails (I
>         like having them, don't use gnome/kde/xfce so don't
>         know what else would generate them so don't want to
>         turn it off in tracker).
>         
>         The request is that:
>         
>         a) tracker use an app-local thumbnails dir, such as
>         ~/.cache/tracker/thumbnails, which I have seen other
>         apps keeping data local for themselves like this
>
> AFAIK they can't do this: it breaks the freedesktop.org thumbnail
> storage specification.
>  
>
>         or
>         
>         b) allow a ./configure option to specify where they
>         should go
>
> That would still break the spec.
>  
>
>         or
>         
>         c) during routine indexing if tracker discovers
>         thumbnails that used to exist but are now gone it can
>         regenerate them?
>         
>         
>         Part of the reason for the request is because I see
>         that if I delete a thumbnail, tracker will no longer
>         display its associated hit in tracker search GUI.  IOW
>         if I delete everything in ~/.thumbnails and do a
>         tracker search, 0 results are returned.
>
> IMHO tracker-search-tool should generate thumbnails.  That's what
> file-managers do, and in many ways t-s-t is like a file-manager.  

we could do that - the only reason we dont currently is becasue
gnome-search-tool does not (and TST is a fork of that)