Alan Horkan wrote:
I've been trying to manually add Dublin Core metadata to my files for a while and Dublin Core is incorporated as part of XMP.
Yup.
Good stuff, that.
Given that librsvg was and possible still is faster than libpng a thumbnail is in my opinion unnecessary bulk.
Ahhh...
You forgot to finish. :-)
"... unnecessary bulk for any systems based on librsvg and using a standard Linux environment like Nautilus".
:-)
For some reason, I'm not sure all those out there running MS Windows have librsvg integrated in their desktop and apps.
However... any Adobe products they have will pick up XMP metadata. And any workflow solutions that use Adobe generated content a lot are more likely to...
In terms of a more generic portable solution there was some recent mention of GUASH thumbnail browser. on the GIMP mailing list. A developer expressed an interest in porting it to GTK2, although other thumbnailing solutions seem to be preferred it might still happen and could be reusable by Inkscape. I believe CinePaint is continuing to use the GTK1.x Guash.
There are things that make Guash useful for it's purposes, but that doesn't preclude the files from having thumbnails. In the case of a proper Guash implementation it would be able to use thumbnails inside of data files instead of generating it's own duplicates in .xvpics.