freedesktop thumbnail spec: modification proposal, central development

[Alexander Larsson]

On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 14:13 +0200, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:

> (Personally, I'd like to propose to merge all the failed/
> subdirectories into a single directory -- failed/ -- because IMHO the
> failed/ concept is just broken. But that's another story.)

I think the idea behind it is that each thumbnail creator may support a
different set of types, and if it cannot thumbnail a file and then
creates a global file that stops other implementations from trying it
they wouldn't even try even though they may support it. Of course,
whether you think this is a problem or not is another thing entierly.

We do however need some form of failed reporting so that apps don't keep
trying to thumbnail some broken file over and over.