Re: A few issues with thumbs.el

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Mathias Dahl wrote:
> Henrik Enberg <address@hidden> writes:
> > Have you seen the thumbnail-spec, which is apparently poised to become a
> > freedesktop.org standard?  It seems to allow usage of the same
> > thumbnails by several programs.
> >
> > <http://jens.triq.net/thumbnail-spec/>
>
> I have now... :)
>
> Seems quite good although I don't like the idea of using PNG-files as
> their size is much larger than using JPEG.
>
> The file names are named according to the absolute URI's MD5 value,
> which most in this thread seems to dislike (including myself).

In this case you should bug the specification author/maintainer.  If this
gets approved as a standard, I think it will be very counter-productive to
use a different scheme with Emacs.

Paul