[Clipart] Thumbnails in clipart packages

[Bryce Harrington]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> The more I think about this, the more I think we should go back and do
> what we were thinking originally:  plop the thumbnails right beside
> the images themselves, with .thumb.png added to the filename.  Because
> of the way the Thumbnail Management Standard handled the filenames of
> the thumbnails dependent on the original file's location, it is
> absolutely inevitable and unavoidable that unpackaging software, in
> order to store the thumbnails in accordance with the TMS, will *have*
> to move them *and* recalcualte the location hashing stuff over from
> scratch, anyway.  Therefore, I see no reason to complicate our
> packaging format with something that isn't going to do anyone any
> good, since it will just have to be redone when it's unpacked.

Sounds good to me, this has been my thinking as well.

> The added benefit here beyond simplicity is that if someone just uses
> a naive unzipping tool to unpack the clipart, they'll be able to tell
> which thumbnail goes with which image, easily.
> 
> We'll still follow the TMS guidelines for what format the thumbnails
> should be in and what size and that stuff.

Bryce