[Kde-imaging] Get images' thumbnails

[Achim Bohnet]

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 ;) ).

Would be a preview only of the currently selected image
a good compromise?  (as in preview of the kde file dialog box)

 
> libkipi doesn't offer this possibility, am I wrong?
> 
> If not, wouldn't it be great if libkipi takes host app's thumbnails or, if 
> they doesn't exist, create its ones?

As the thumbnails are very probable already in memory
it would be nice.  (Especially if the image could be
shared.)

> 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 ;)
> 
> What you think about?
> 
> Regards, 
> Valerio
> 
> [1] http://snipr.com/1nc3l
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