Re: [Tracker] Thumbnails?

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 14:13 +0200, Debarshi Ray wrote:
> I am trying to build a photo management application that will use
> Tracker instead of its own SQLite DB.

> Is there any way Tracker can help me get the thumbnails for a
> particular photo known to Tracker? I found

On Maemo we use this software, which implements that specification:

http://git.xfce.org/apps/tumbler/

This is the adapted version that we use on Maemo:
http://gitorious.org/maemo-af/tumbler

I added Jannis Pohlman, maintainer of Tumbler, in CC for you.

> http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/2008/09/07/heres-a-meme-orgfreedesktopthumbnailer
> and noticed that tracker-thumbnailer.c mentions
> org.freedesktop.thumbnailer (and friends), but I do not think I have
> any program on my GNOME desktop which actually provides this service.
> Is Maemo's hildon-thumbnail what I should be looking for?
>
> I know that gnome-desktop provides a GnomeDesktopThumbnailFactory but
> it does not seem have any asynchronous API and I would like to avoid
> having to deal with threads just for fetching thumbnails as is being
> done by Eye of GNOME. Not sure how damaging it would be to use the
> synchronous calls to lookup, and if create and save thumbnails in the
> main thread, either.
>
> Any help or pointers would be appreaciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Debarshi

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