A Standard for Thumbnailers

[Erlend Davidson]

Steve Frécinaux wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
>
>>>  X-Thumbnailer-Exec=/usr/local/bin/eps-thumbnailer %i %o %s
>>>
>> That is very similar to the nautilus system.
>
> Nautilus thumbnailing appears to be quite slow, compared to 
> thumbnailing of pictures in windows.
>
> Wouldn't it peform better if thumbnailing didn't require to launch a 
> program for each single image (using something similar to what fcgi 
> does for web pages or something ?) 
2.4GHz P4... 7 seconds in Thunar to thumbnail 42 jpgs.  Total filesize 
around 40MB.


Can someone do a similar test on Windows?