Re: [tlug] Tip of the day: thumbnail evidence

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 11/07/07, Darren Cook <darren@example.com> wrote:

> I mistyped ~/.thunderbird and found myself in .thumbnails. I had a poke
> around and found it has kept a record of every image I've looked at in
> the past 2.5 years! I dunno if it is just for eog (my main image viewer)
> or all gnome apps, but the paranoid among you might want to clean it out
> regularly!

: jglover@example.com; find /home/jglover/.thumbnails -type f
/home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/ef21db2c85466af2289095e3d6689b31.png
/home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/7e76e7e07ce154ca9d49ad0766fae8ae.png
/home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/cfd502a75a17f2f3aae3c174697ff875.png
/home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/373c5e51268e38322f347791f29b2a32.png
/home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/94f2664edf8a9cbc3860cc4fab70d9bd.png
/home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/7e99844f6849b0a090231a7667d42a91.png
/home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/e69b82eee4a288fd54f66c3f4ffb11f6.png
/home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/7a520e7a95a38e03ea8436c175b8789c.png
/home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/780702d8ce75386bf4f8f3a5bf762b90.png
/home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/918d7094ac4750161cd4881006f295f3.png
: jglover@example.com; for i in `find /home/jglover/.thumbnails -type f`;
do display $i; done


I think it is the Gimp. Lemme check:


: jglover@example.com; mv .thumbnails .thumbnails.BAK
: jglover@example.com; gimp tmp/dilbert-unix.png &
[1] 22235
: jglover@example.com; find /home/jglover/.thumbnails -type f
/home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/241a8fd3fff36d1ac906909b100df44e.png
: jglover@example.com; find /home/jglover/.thumbnails -type f | xargs ls -l
-rw------- 1 jglover users 8695 2007-07-12 12:54
/home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/241a8fd3fff36d1ac906909b100df44e.png


Indeed.

I would guess that GTK apps (GTK == "the Gimp ToolKit") probably do it
as well. gqview, for example, does this:


: jglover@example.com; cd tmp/
: jglover@example.com; rm -rf /home/jglover/.thumbnails
: jglover@example.com; gqview
Creating GQview dir:/home/jglover/.gqview
Creating GQview dir:/home/jglover/.gqview/collections
Creating GQview dir:/home/jglover/.gqview/thumbnails
Creating GQview dir:/home/jglover/.gqview/metadata


Which, IMO, is nicer than ~/.tumbnails

--
Cheers,
Josh