Re: thumbs directory

[Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>]

> 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/