Re: [Usability] A file information preview system in Nautilus

["Iain *" <iaingnome gmail com>]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Jeff Fortin <nekohayo gmail com> wrote:

>
> While the mock up looks nice and all, that is most defintely not how
> compositing works.
>
> How so? Are Affinity and Avant-Window-Navigator not able to do similar
> things for example?

While all context to my comment has been removed the bit I was replying to was

"I think we could make this really fast in the sense that there may be
no need for thumbnailing at all, because we could just throw the image
directly at the graphics processor unit, and the
compositing/GL/whatever would take care of scaling it in real-time"

All application drawing still needs to be done using the standard
toolkits, so there is no "throwing the image directly at the GPU"
The compositor only cares about drawing windows on the screen. Any
content inside a window is scaled by the application.
So I stand by my comment that "there would be no need for thumbnailing
at all, because we could just throw the image directly at the GPU" is
most defintely not how compositing works.

iain