Proposed draft for the thumbnail D-Bus specification

[Alexander Larsson]

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 11:26 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 16:15 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> 
> For nautilus, what I do is queue all the thumbnailable files in the
> directory for thumbnailing, but then I prioritize the files that are
> currently visible. So, when you scroll all the newly showed files are
> pushed to the top of the queue. This seems much better than queueing
> just the visible files each time you scroll, as then the non-visible
> icons won't be thumbnailing in the background waiting for you to scroll.

Oh, and while talking about nautilus. I'm not sure this is very
interesting for us to use. I don't see any advantages with this compared
to what we already have (its the same, just via dbus), and it seems
limited in scope compared to what we eventually want (like larger
previews in a preview pane).