WebKit thumbnailer

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Thu, 26 May 2011 23:10:25 +0200
Jérôme Guelfucci <jeromeg at xfce.org> wrote:

> On 26/05/11 16:08, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Jerome, I just tested your WebKit thumbnailer plugin and it works
> > for me. I adjusted the coding style a tiny bit and made the
> > thumbnails be generated from based on a 1024x1024 frame instead of
> > 1024x600 (since thumbnails are more or less supposed to have
> > quadratic dimensions).
> >
> > I rebased it on master and pushed it to jeromeg/webkit-thumbnailer
> > instead of webkit-thumbnailer.
> >
> > Anything else that needs to be done except maybe add a few comments
> > here and there?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jannis
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I can add more code comments, that's not an issue. I'll work on this 
> this weekend, I'll have some time.

Ok, that would be cool. Just so that others have it easier when they
try to understand what webkit-thumbnailer.c does.

> Re further work, the only thing I could think of is freeing some
> memory by blanking the page loaded in the Webkit view in an idle
> callback (when the thumbnailer plugin is not used for a while).

Ah, so the page last thumbnailed stays in memory? Is there a way to
measure how much memory we are talking about (typical web pages
downloaded from the internet)? 

Performance-wise I suppose that switching back to a blank page after
every generated thumbnail is too much. A timeout sounds more
reasonable. But then again, tumblerd shuts down by itself if it hasn't
been used in a while, so maybe that's good enough. So I think
this is worth only if the average memory footprint of the pages that
stay in memory is notably high.

  - Jannis