[Thunar-dev] dcraw thumbnailer

[Mike Massonnet]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:02:28PM +0000, Erlend Davidson wrote:
> There is a postscript thumnailer in there too now. This is a tad slow 
> (worst is 3 seconds per file), and I don't see that being a fixable 
> problem - it's just the way postscript is stored. I was thinking about a 
> couple of things in relation to this. It might be an idea to give 
> thumbnailers a priority in the .desktop files - keep the slowest ones 
> until last, and to give a way out if there is ever a conflict between 
> two thumbnailers wanting to do the same mimetype (i.e. choose the 
> fastest one which has all of TryExec satisfied)?

What about using the directory /dev/shm (if it exists) to do the
compilation?  For the record, it is a filesystem in RAM which is
noticeably faster than hard-disk access.

Regards,
Mike
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