On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 13:18 -0400, Elle Stone wrote: > On 03/15/2016 10:51 AM, Kevin Payne wrote: > > > > A very quick bit of rummaging round in source code leads me to > > libgimpthumb\gimpthumb-utils.c > > > > Where it shows a fall-back if the thumbnails directory cannot be > > created - it uses the tmp dir instead. > > > > Kevin > Hmm, > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/thumbnail-spec/thumbnail-spec- > latest.html#DIRECTORY > says the "normal" place for the thumbnail directory is > $XDG_CACHE_HOME/thumbnails/ and the "normal" location for > $XDG_CACHE_HOME is /$HOME/.cache. > > For whatever reason on my computer $XDG_CACHE_HOME is set to > /tmp/elle/.cache. So that's probably why GIMP is writing thumbnails > to > the tmp folder. You should fix that. Whatever is setting your XDG_CACHE_GOME to /tmp/something is doing so wrongly, or at least not sanely :) > If I start GIMP by adding the line: > > export XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/elle/.cache > > then GIMP saves thumbnails to /home/elle/.cache/thumbnails. > > The thumbnail contains information that points to the corresponding > XCF > file, for example: > > Description : Thumbnail of > file:///home/elle/edit/digiKam/working/080810-2252-1855-house- > rainbow.xcf > Software : GIMP 2.9.3 > Thumb URI : > file:///home/elle/edit/digiKam/working/080810-2252-1855-house- > rainbow.xcf > > digiKam doesn't offer the option of adding a hidden folder to the > database. > > Copying the thumbnail folder to a folder that digiKam monitors and > trying to open the correspoinding XCF file by opening the the > thumbnail > just opens the thumbnail itself, not the XCF file. > > Are there any image/file browsers that can use the uri location > information in the thumbnail to open the corresponding XCF file > rather > than the actual thumbnail png? > > I mean besides Nautilus. I don't want to install Nautilus on my > computer > as it would mean making considerable changes to my Gentoo > installation. We use the folders specified in the freedektop thumbnail managing spec, that's not going to change. You should file bugs against desktop components that don't follow the standard. > As an aside, > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-late > st.html > says $XDG_CACHE_HOME is for "user-specific non-essential (cached) > data". > > It seems to me that the thumbnails that make it possible to browse > one's > XCF files don't count as "non-essential". As it is, for the > thumbnails > to be useful I'd have to use GIMP to recreate thumbnails for the 500 > or > so XCF files currently indexed by digiKam, and that would take an > enormouse amount of time to accomplish. Thumbnails are by definition non-essential because they can be recreated, and that's why they live in ~/.cache, you only need to make sure your cache is at the persistent default location. > Thumbnail browsing is at best a temporary and fragile workaround for > using an image DAM software like digiKam, that can make its own > thumbnails (except for GIMP 2.9 XCF files), or at least can read a > thumbnail already embedded in the image file. > > Are GIMP 2.9 XCF files saved to disk with embedded thumbnails? That's on the TODO, but there are so many things on the TODO... Regards, --Mitch _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
