RFE: Use freedesktop.org thumbnail managing standard to save disc space

Hello -

I just stumbled across GQview & it looks lovely.  It has some nice
slideshow features that gthumb does not (e.g. pausing a slideshow in
progress), so I look forward to using it a lot.

There was one minor disappointment, however:  unless I've missed
something in the docs about the two ways that the app has of managing
thumbnail files, neither one supports the freedesktop.org standard.

http://triq.net/~jens/thumbnail-spec/

The reason for the standard was simple:  with no standard, each
program used to view and handle images tended to generate it's own set
of thumbnails.  This lead to a significant waste of disc space.  Now,
nautilus, gthumb and other programs can share a common thumbnail
database.

It would be great if GQview could do this also.  There apparently is a
set of GdkPixbuf-loader-based code already written for this (see
http://lists.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2004-July/msg00000.html
) as well as other code examples in the other apps which use the
standard.

Thanks for a useful program!
thomas


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