Re: [rox-devel] Saved thumbnails

[Greg S. <gs...@fr...>]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 18:12:28 +0000, Thomas Leonard said:

> I've started adding support for saved thumbnails from the new spec, here:
>  
>  	http://triq.net/~pearl/thumbnail-spec/
>  
>  Currently, all thumbnails are looked for and saved into ~/.thumbnails

I"m glad it doesn't store it in the directory the images are in itself.
 THANKS! (this would be really bad on flash disks, where I do 90% of my
thumbnail browsing!) You may wish to implement some sort of hashing
algorithm to ensure that the current thumbnail is up to date...

>  (the spec also allows saving into the directory with the images, but I
>  find that annoying...).

AGREED! (see above)

>  
>  Thumbs are only saved if the image is more than 3 times the area of a
>  'Huge' image. Also, you need Gtk+-2.0 (earlier versions don't allow saving
>  ..png images).

Guess it's time for me to finally upgrade, eh?

--g

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