[maemo-developers] GtkPixbuf from Char buffer

From: Arto Karppinen arto.karppinen at mail.suomi.net
Date: Thu Oct 16 18:30:01 EEST 2008
gary liquid wrote:
> arto,
> 
> have you considered caching the downloaded file to disk and reading from 
> there using the standard function?
> 
> This would give you the obvious benefit of allowing offline usage and 
> faster requerying.
> There isn't an infinite amount of memory available and having to 
> download images everytime could cause user angst.

This is about a small preview image for the complete Irreco Theme, so i 
don't feel there is any real need to cache it.

The theme will be saved to disk if the user likes the preview, and 
chooses do download the whole thing.


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Arto Karppinen
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