Hi, Bryan Ford <baford@xxxxxxx> writes: > Dear GIMP developers, > > I'm soliciting feedback, discussion, and hopefully ultimately > support for a very simple proposal that I've written up in > preliminary form at this page: > > http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/ I don't think the .thumbnails directory can be considered ephemeral or otherwise regenerable content. Regenerating all thumbnails can be very difficult and time-consuming. The original data might be on removable media and even if all the images are on disk you certainly don't want to go through the hassle of regenerating them all since you will most probably need a number of different applications to do that. I suggest that you change your proposal so that it explicitely states that the .thumbnails directory should _not_ be tagged as a cache directory. Since GIMP doesn't put swap files into a dedicated directory your proposal will also not work for GIMP swap files (which are admittedly not worth to be archived). Sven
