[Fedora-livecd-list] Making content available on both sides of the live CD

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 18:10 -0800, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>> Anyway, off-topic question: Do people have a suggestion for how to
>> auto-generate the thumbnails for Nautilus before the live CD runs.  That
>> way, Nautilus will have pre-generated thumbnails for the images and
>> movies.  That will look nice, plus avoid a TERRIBLE I/O storm caused by
>> Nautilus opening these folders and saying, "Oh, I'll make thumbnails now."
>
> I looked at this at one point and had something working.  You want to
> resize to an image that's < 128x128 and stick the thumbnail under
> ~/.thumbnails/normal.  For a file that's (eg, for the fedora user)
> ~/Photos/me.png, the thumbnail would be
>  ~/.thumbnails/normal/$(echo "file:///home/fedora/Photos/me.png" | md5sum)

echo -n, I presume.  Hilariously the spec is a 403 
<http://jens.triq.net/thumbnail-spec/> but it's available in the Wayback 
Machine.

> If you come up with a nice script to do this, I'd be glad to include it 
> in livecd-tools as an example for others :-)

I'm disappointed to say I may make such a contribution. (-;

-- Asheesh.

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