From: msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 16:11:46 EST
>> Oh cool! I didn't know about that. It will certainly
>> get dobey off my back.
>> This is just what he wanted.
>
> Glad to be of help.
>
> I do, however, question the rationale for thumbnailing
> AbiWord documents. I don't think that a thumbnail
> could possibly give sufficient context for
> disambiguation between word processor documents, thus
> making the thumbnails worthless (or worse, prohibitive
> since they could cause confusion or reduce user
> reaction times). It could also be quite a lengthy
> process - documents like the RTFSpec take on the order
> of 30 seconds to load and view. That's an unacceptable
> time to generate a thumbnail. And since this is
> probably being done in a Glib idle loop, we'll get the
> document inside of a CPU idle period (a good thing)
> and then hog the CPU until the conversion is done -
> thus appearing to freeze Nautilus (a bad thing).
>
> This sounds like a genuinely bad idea (tm). It's
> probably not yours, but I still feel that this has to
> be said.
>
I definately agree that 30 secs for a preview is too long. I've been
thinking about ways of substantially improving that. I think I'll give it
a try soon. The idea is to only load the first page of the document for a
preview. If it works, I'll implement code to (optionally) show previews of
docs in the file-selector dialog. ie click on a file and see the first
page as a preview (like we do for images but a much larger!). It should be
almost instanteous.
Martin
> Dom
>
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