RFE: Nextcloud should support a thumbnailing/preview API
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Description
If Nextcloud could support a thumbnailing API, the thumbnail generation could be handed out to a small dedicated thumbnailer process. This dedicated process could scale out thumbnail generation how it wants, leading to accelerated generation of thumbnails. Because the process would be smaller and dedicated, it has the potential to be much more secure: it might only have read access to the content, and it could be locked down hard with SELinux.
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating Nextcloud's thumbnail generation path and the boundaries where a thumbnailing API could be introduced; done should include a defined API that can hand thumbnail generation to a separate process while preserving the stated read-only and SELinux security goals.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- api, backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100