[Thunar-dev] A Standard for Thumbnailers

[Erlend Davidson]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Erlend Davidson wrote:
>   
>> However, thunar-vfs-pixbuf-thumbnailer-1 is optimised for this purpose 
>> (uses the jpg resizing trick mentioned on the xdg mailing list) and 
>> takes just 0.1 seconds to convert the jpeg to a png - but I can't pipe 
>> the output from dcraw into it.  For this reason would it be possible to 
>> add an option to thunar-vfs-pixbuf-thumbnailer-1 which enables it to 
>> take the input image from stdin?
>>     
>
> The thunar-vfs-pixbuf-thumbnailer doesn't use any special tricks, it
> just a wrapper for GdkPixbuf routines. Check the source it's really simple.
I see that now.  So GdkPixbuf is faster than convert?  Is it using that 
DCT technique for resizing?