Re: [rox-devel] Re: Suggestion Box: Limit Thumbnails

[Ken H. <ke...@ha...>]

Thomas Leonard wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:19:35 -0500, Peter wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:45:21 -0800, Ken Hayber wrote:
>>
>> snip...
>>> I think you need a 'least recently accessed' model, not a 'least recently
>>> created' one.  Otherwise you could end up recreating some thumbnails too
>>> often.
> 
>> Yes, that would work. Also, I noticed that there is a .thumbnails/large
>> directory. It does not get purged. I had to do it manually. I assume that
>> got created when I was changing the icon size in a window.
> 
> ROX-Filer currently only creates thumbnails at the 'normal' size. The
> 'large' directory must have been created by something else (lots of
> programs use the same system).

And there is the problem with trying to limit the size.  Unless there is a common config file for 
the thumbnail system, each app will do its own thing.  Right?

So I wonder if the best solution is a cron job to clean up the .thumbnails periodically (as 
suggested by the spec).

ImageMagick's identify tool will list the Thumb:: attributes from which you can get the original 
image name, location and Mtime.  A script to delete thumbs for files that no longer exist, then 
deletes thumbs older than some period shouldn't be too hard to write.