[XESAM] Ontology snapshot

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

2007/6/6, Joe Shaw <joe at joeshaw.org>:
>
> 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 be outdated by the time they'd actually be displayed (in a search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.).


I agree with Joe in that  we should keep thumbnails out. At least for this
iteration.

I'm not agreeing with the fact that the thumbnails will be out of date, but
let's not start that discussion if we are not going to include them anyway.

Cheers,
Mikkel
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