My problems with the thumb spec

Mosfet dan.duley at verizon.net
Sun May 18 19:13:58 EEST 2003


On Sunday 18 May 2003 08:01 am, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 02:45:32AM +0200, Kai Wetzel wrote:
> [...]
>
...snip...
> - When thumbnailing files on filesystems with long filenames, the
>   filesystem hosting the cache must support them too.
>

Actually, now that I think about it, both current specs require long filenames 
in your home folder. The hex key isn't small ;-)

> None of these arguments bother me particularly... it's too late for the
> next stable release of ROX-Filer to support a new system, but both could
> coexist, while wasting some space. It would be really good to declare the
> spec as stable at some point, though!



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