Re: [Tracker] Specifying thumbnailers as a service



On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 01:12 +0200, David Faure wrote:
On Friday 29 August 2008, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

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This sounds overly complicated to me.  Now you're assuming that any app 
that wants to load thumbnails is also capable of figuring out the 
mime-type of the file it wants to load. 

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I agree, it's the job of that "service" to figure out the mimetype (and 
therefore the actual backend) to use.  

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Hmm, maybe that's as simple as saying that:

org.freedesktop.thumbnailer.generic is used by default, and that one can
find out and call a org.freedesktop.thumbnailer.<specific mime type> service
if it doesn't know how to handle that mimetype itself.

I'll try to write the draft of the specification this way. At Maemo we
will implement a daemon for our own use-case and if this kind of DBus
stuff turns out to be impractical then we'll immediately notice this
during the implementing of our case.


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