[Kde-imaging] Get images' thumbnails

[Gilles Caulier]

2007/6/15, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
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> 2007/6/15, Achim Bohnet <ach at mpe.mpg.de>:
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> > On Friday, 15. June 2007, Valerio Fuoglio wrote:
> > > Hi to all,
> > >
> > > for Slideshow, I want to add images' thumbnails next to their name (in
> > the
> > > list box), but I haven't found a way to do it lightly (load every
> > preview
> > > with KIO::filePreview is really heavy -- try with 92 images ;) ).
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> > Would be a preview only of the currently selected image
> > a good compromise?  (as in preview of the kde file dialog box)
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> >
> > > libkipi doesn't offer this possibility, am I wrong?
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> yes, there is no method for that.
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> > > If not, wouldn't it be great if libkipi takes host app's thumbnails
> > or, if
> > > they doesn't exist, create its ones?
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> > As the thumbnails are very probable already in memory
> > it would be nice.  (Especially if the image could be
> > shared.)
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> At least, the image are in HDD cache with digiKam following freedesktop
> spec. This one is shared with others applications witch can use it
> (Konqueror for ex.)
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> > I'm looking at kio_digikamthumbnailProtocol [1], something like this
> > should be
> > > a good solution.
> >
> > AFAIU digikam uses the freedesktop standard for thumbnails.
> > And that's the right way to go ;)
> >
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> Well, this will add a depencies to digiKam as well.
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> Remember than when kipi-plugins project has been created from old
> DigikamPlugins, the source code used digiKam thumbnails KIO slave.
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> A discussion between with Renchi have been concluded to remove this
> depency and use KDE thumbnails KIO slave instead.


This is the link in mailing list archive (2004)

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.imaging/117/match=2004+kioslave

Gilles
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