Proposed draft for the thumbnail D-Bus specification

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Tue Oct 28 05:20:18 PDT 2008


On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 15:15 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:

> > Also, wrt failed thumbnailings. What id should be used to look for
> > failed thumbnailings?
> 
> What do you mean? Atm the spec requires passing back which URIs failed.
> Which means that the app developer can use the returned URI in the list
> of failed URIs to determine which exact thumbnail failed. Is that
> sufficient?

Different implementations of thumbnailing may fail on different files,
thus the failed thumbnailed files are stored in
~/.thumbnails/fail/$(id)/md5.png.

For the libgnome thumbnailer we use "gnome-thumbnail-factory" as the id.




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