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[Michael Jennings]

On Monday, 31 July 2000, at 18:52:23 (-0500),
Joakim Ziegler wrote:

> I'd also like to know what the speed advantages are of using a
> binary database to hold lots of images in a monolithic file are, as
> compared to having the images in separate files with known
> filenames.

The binary database holds configuration data, not images.  There are
currently no images whatsoever in the .db files.  They store
settings...known file types and what to run them with, what icons each
type should have, where each icon should go in each view, where the
view last was on the screen, etc.  Mostly numerical data.

Thumbnails are stored as individual Imlib2-native ARGB files.

Michael

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Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX)  http://www.kainx.org/  <mej at eterm.org>
Software Engineer, VA Linux Systems       Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org)
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