[Thunar-dev] dcraw thumbnailer

[Benedikt Meurer]

Mike Massonnet wrote:
> 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.

You can use tmpfs for this.

> Regards,
> Mike

Benedikt