Re: Consolidating Core Desktop libraries

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 13:55 +0100, Felix Riemann wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Am Freitag, den 12.11.2010, 20:54 +0000 schrieb Bastien Nocera:
> > <snip>
> > 
> > There's currently RandR helpers (g-s-d and control-center), wallpaper
> > handling code (g-s-d, control-center and nautilus), and the thumbnailer
> > (nautilus only, afaik).
> > 
> > The RandR stuff could be moved in g-s-d, and the wallpaper code as well,
> > when nautilus stops handling the desktop at some point in GNOME 3. And
> > nautilus could move the thumbnailer code to use itself.
> 
> *raiseshand*
> 
> Eye of GNOME uses the thumbnailer as well (we need to be able to
> thumbnail without nautilus). But it should be no problem to C&P this bit
> (just 2 files I think) between nautilus and eog.

Ok.

>  One could also think
> about reanimating the once proposed d-bus-based thumbnailer[1] if more
> users show up.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Felix
> 
> [1]: http://live.gnome.org/ThumbnailerSpec

That spec is over-engineered, and far too complicated for what we want
to use it for.