From: Stephen W. <wa...@ul...> - 2002-02-25 15:52:24
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In message <200...@ev...> Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> scribbled: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 03:20:33PM +0000, Stephen Watson wrote: > > In message <8e5...@wa...> > > Stephen Watson <wa...@ul...> scribbled: > > Two new patches are at the same place; one to fix some compilation warnings > > in gconvert.c > > If we drop Gtk+-1.2 support in a week or so, gconvert will disappear :-) Bit eager to drop it aren't we? > > > and another to add an option not to save the generated thumbnail images. > > I know this is going to annoy people, but I'm thinking of making saving > compulsory... > > The reason is that bugs in gdk-pixbuf keep crashing the filer, so I want > to move it to a sub-process. This means we need a way to send the image > back to the filer, and the easiest way to do that is to save it in > .thumbnails (since we'd normally do that anyway). > > For those worrying about disk space, there are two useful options: > > - Have some code to clean out .thumbnails from time to time. > > - Symlink .thumbnails into /tmp (to get it cleaned automatically). > > For Linux (and Solaris?) users: if you mount a 'tmpfs' filesystem onto > /tmp then stuff in there will only be saved in swap space, and cleaned on > reboot... Solaris does use swap space for /tmp What was concerning me was not the disc space issue, but what happened when a user looked at classified images on a secure disc, but had their home area on a less secure disc. PS. I may be able to get ROX-CLib to generate a shared library... -- Stephen Watson Physicist Ultra Electronics Ltd - Signature Management Systems (UESMS) Tel: +44 (0)1543 878888 (switchboard) Fax: +44 (0)1543 878249 Email: wa...@ul... |