From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: thumbs directory Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:52:07 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87vezagzh4.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87ll0bbr8w.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zmoqtvyf.fsf@jurta.org> <874q6wu5yo.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131005667 30337 80.91.229.2 (3 Nov 2005 08:14:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 08:14:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 03 09:14:23 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EXaDe-0002I1-FB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 09:13:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EXaDd-00018a-FJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 03:13:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EXZyg-0006Er-K4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 02:57:42 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EXZye-0006E7-17 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 02:57:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EXZyd-0006E3-TZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 02:57:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.111] (helo=mail.neti.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EXZye-00040W-4h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2005 02:57:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-34-229-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.34.229]) by Relayhost1.neti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E181CF5; Thu, 3 Nov 2005 09:57:53 +0200 (EET) Original-To: Mathias Dahl In-Reply-To: (Mathias Dahl's message of "Wed, 02 Nov 2005 14:13:21 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) (Debian) at neti.ee X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:45341 Archived-At: > I do remember that the last time thumbnails was used, the discussion > went very lively :), some suggesting that the thumbnails follow the > same convention as specified by the Freedesktop project (is this how > GIMP stores its thumbnails?). Yes, on the page http://developer.gimp.org/standards.html you can find a list of standards GIMP tries to support, and the thumbnail standard is one of them: Thumbnail Managing Standard http://triq.net/~jens/thumbnail-spec/ Deals with the permanent storage of previews for file content. In particular, it tries to define a general and widely accepted standard for this task. GIMP 2.0 implements this standard and dropped support for the old-fashioned .xvpics. > Speaking of thumbnails, tumme.el now has two options that determines > how thumbnails are stored; either "centrally", in ~/.tumme (this is > configurable and we can change the default value if needed) and > "per-directory", which was something that some people wanted. You can support both standards, but I believe that using ~/.thumbnails is a better default than the old per-directory .xvpics. BTW, another useful standard supported by GIMP and some other GNOME applications is Recent File Storage Specification that specifies the standard mechanism for storing a list of recently used files. Perhaps recentf.el should have an option to support it. More information here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2frecent_2dfile_2dspec http://standards.freedesktop.org/recent-file-spec/recent-file-spec-latest.html -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/