[Thunar-dev] dcraw thumbnailer

[Mike Massonnet]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:55:51PM +0000, Erlend Davidson wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.
> Making a thumbnail for postscript is very easy, I just call 
> ImageMagick's convert program - there is no middle stage that I could 
> place on /dev/shm, if that's what you meant?  If anybody knows of a 
> faster means of generating a thumbnail of postscript please say.

You can use a tmpfs to generate tex thumbnails for instance :)


Mike
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