[XESAM] Ontology snapshot

[Joe Shaw]

Hi,

On 6/5/07, Evgeny Egorochkin <phreedom.stdin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 June 2007 15:33:55 Fabrice Colin wrote:
> > On 6/3/07, Evgeny Egorochkin <phreedom.stdin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I meant handling thumbnails of files. Strigi has a thumbnail field for
> > > files. Not sure about other indexers, not sure we need this in xesam.
> > > Ideas? Might thumbnail retrieval be useful somehow?
> >
> > Isn't there a thumbnail management standard cooking somewhere on
> > freedesktop.org ?
>
> I've found out that Tracker also deals with thumbnails. Would Xesam be a
> useful interface to thumbnails in the light of a clear demand to show result
> thumbnails?

Beagle's GUI generates thumbnails only for search results, and it uses
the GNOME mechanism to do this.

I don't think it's a good idea for the crawlers themselves to do this;
it seems like a waste of disk space, and many of the thumbnails will
be outdated by the time they'd actually be displayed (in a search
tool, the file manager, etc.).

Joe