[XESAM] Ontology snapshot

[jamie]

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 04:04 +0300, Evgeny Egorochkin wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 June 2007 15:33:55 Fabrice Colin wrote:
> > On 6/3/07, Evgeny Egorochkin <phreedom.stdin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 03 June 2007 11:09:19 Fabrice Colin wrote:
> > > > They would fall under Image. Isn't that good enough ?
> > >
> > > 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?

we do thumbnails optionally (off by default) but we use the fdo
thumbnail spec and only do thumbs for changed files on the fly (we check
if existing thumb is out of date before regenerating)

we do not store thumbs in the db at all