[Rawstudio-dev] "processed" mark

[Pawel Golaszewski]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Anders Brander wrote:
> > Anyway - I think that nice solution would be:
> > - grab jpeg embeded in raw on first pass,
> > - when file is loaded - update the thumbnail, reflecting current settings,
> > - some operations on each file should cause thumbnail update (crop, 
> >   brightness, ....)
> > 
> > Otherwise from time to time you'll have questions like mine: "Why 
> > thumbnail differs from newly loaded image?". On newly created directory 
> > these should look similar.
> 
> There's a counterpoint. What the user clicks on to select a specific
> image shouldn't change over time.

There can be some mark in the xml of each file - "regenerated". If that 
mark is present - don't regenerate in the opening.
With some operations there can be simply removed that mark and on the next 
opening thumbnail will be regenerated.

> I don't know what the right solution is, but there's definitely room for 
> discussion.

:)

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