Location of thumbnail database

[Marcel Wiesweg]

Hi,

regardless of the stored format, there is one more open question about the
planned thumbnail database that I want to put up for discussion: Where to
place the database file?

To summarize the characteristics:
- It is not tied to a specific digikam database
- it is not tied to digikam but can also be used by showfoto
- it can be shared by all users accessing a set of photos (but need not be
shared)

Possible storage locations:
1) Inside ~/.thumbnail (FD.o spec directory)
2) Somewhere in .kde/share/apps (like Amarok's storage)
3) Alongside the digikam4.db file initially (but what happens if there are
multiple dbs?)
4) Configurable (no choice here on itself - we still need a good default for
97% of users)

Your viewpoints?
Marcel
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Good question...
I would vote for 3+4. My homefolder is becoming so slow because of all the
millions of files (ext4 doesn't seem to like lot of files in a folder?), even
applications that don't use .thumbnails are slower now.
I'd like to be able to change to location by myself, so point 4 would be fine.
BUT: how does showFoto know where the thumb db is located?
Do I have to setup this, twice?
Or do we just query the digikam settings?
But if we do, what happens when showFoto was started before the first run of
digiKam?

I would NOT place it in .thumbnails, because gwenview for example has an
option to clean up this folder, also there is an KDE app called "sweeper",
which also deleted the.thumbnails folder, if you want to get rid of some user
data.

For now, my vote would be 3+4.

Andi

On Tuesday 09 June 2009 23:14:10 Marcel Wiesweg wrote:

> Hi,
>
> regardless of the stored format, there is one more open question about the
> planned thumbnail database that I want to put up for discussion: Where to
> place the database file?
>
> To summarize the characteristics:
> - It is not tied to a specific digikam database
> - it is not tied to digikam but can also be used by showfoto
> - it can be shared by all users accessing a set of photos (but need not be
> shared)
>
> Possible storage locations:
> 1) Inside ~/.thumbnail (FD.o spec directory)
> 2) Somewhere in .kde/share/apps (like Amarok's storage)
> 3) Alongside the digikam4.db file initially (but what happens if there are
> multiple dbs?)
> 4) Configurable (no choice here on itself - we still need a good default
> for 97% of users)
>
> Your viewpoints?
> Marcel
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

3+4 too...


But, as thumbnails interface include both storage methods, i would
give another proposal :

1/ Let's showfoto to use ~/.thumbnails. Thumbs management in showfoto
is just limited to thumbbar. it's not a photo-management program.
2/ digiKam use a dedicated thumbs DB where place can be customized by
users. Default place can be in ~./kde/share/apps/digikam (same way
than Amarok).

Gilles


2009/6/9 Andi Clemens <[hidden email]>:

> Good question...
> I would vote for 3+4. My homefolder is becoming so slow because of all the
> millions of files (ext4 doesn't seem to like lot of files in a folder?), even
> applications that don't use .thumbnails are slower now.
> I'd like to be able to change to location by myself, so point 4 would be fine.
> BUT: how does showFoto know where the thumb db is located?
> Do I have to setup this, twice?
> Or do we just query the digikam settings?
> But if we do, what happens when showFoto was started before the first run of
> digiKam?
>
> I would NOT place it in .thumbnails, because gwenview for example has an
> option to clean up this folder, also there is an KDE app called "sweeper",
> which also deleted the.thumbnails folder, if you want to get rid of some user
> data.
>
> For now, my vote would be 3+4.
>
> Andi
>
> On Tuesday 09 June 2009 23:14:10 Marcel Wiesweg wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> regardless of the stored format, there is one more open question about the
>> planned thumbnail database that I want to put up for discussion: Where to
>> place the database file?
>>
>> To summarize the characteristics:
>> - It is not tied to a specific digikam database
>> - it is not tied to digikam but can also be used by showfoto
>> - it can be shared by all users accessing a set of photos (but need not be
>> shared)
>>
>> Possible storage locations:
>> 1) Inside ~/.thumbnail (FD.o spec directory)
>> 2) Somewhere in .kde/share/apps (like Amarok's storage)
>> 3) Alongside the digikam4.db file initially (but what happens if there are
>> multiple dbs?)
>> 4) Configurable (no choice here on itself - we still need a good default
>> for 97% of users)
>>
>> Your viewpoints?
>> Marcel
>> _______________________________________________
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>> [hidden email]
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