Sent: 2012-01-26 15:49:18 UTC (4 months ago)

From: Ragnar Brynjúlfsson

Naming of thumbnails in Gimp on Windows....

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I'm new here, so Hi all. :)

I just finished a python script/plug-in called GIMP Book for managing
multiple pages in GIMP 2.6 (I make comics in my free time, so it comes
quite handy). It can be found at

Sent: 2012-01-26 16:00:31 UTC (4 months ago)

From: Mukund Sivaraman

Naming of thumbnails in Gimp on Windows....

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Hi Ragnar

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 04:49:18PM +0100, Ragnar Brynjúlfsson wrote:
> I'm new here, so Hi all. :)
>
> I just finished a python script/plug-in called GIMP Book for managing
> multiple pages in GIMP 2.6 (I make comics in my free time, so it comes
> quite handy). It can be found at http://registry.gimp.org/node/25975 I
> developed it on Ubuntu, and it works fine on Ubuntu and Fedora, but
> fails on Windows.
>
> I've narrowed the Windows problem down to the code that finds the
> thumbnails created by Gimp. It looks up the md5 hash of the path to
> the image, and then looks for that image in ~/.thumbnails/large or
> normal. The same code on Windows returns a hash that doesn't match the
> name of the thumbnail generated. For instance:
>
> import urllib
> import hashlib
> bla = urllib.quote("C:\g.xcf")
> hashlib.md5("file://" + bla).hexdigest()
>
> Returns eef9b62......something, but the thumbnail for C:\g.xcf is
> called e345adf8ffb47e9a1be0fa35aa457295.png

>>> hashlib.md5("file:///C:/g.xcf").hexdigest()
'e345adf8ffb47e9a1be0fa35aa457295'

Kind regards,

Mukund