Don't save preview encoded - SL #4470

We don't need save the preview in the metadata encoded,
doing it makes more difficult the interoperability with other
activities using it, and takes more space in the disk.

Signed-off-by: Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo@laptop.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/utils.py b/utils.py
index 28adc9c..701e45f 100644
--- a/utils.py
+++ b/utils.py
@@ -8,12 +8,19 @@ from time import strftime
 
 import constants
 
-def getStringFromPixbuf(pixbuf):
+
+def getStringEncodedFromPixbuf(pixbuf):
     data = [""]
     pixbuf.save_to_callback(_saveDataToBufferCb, "png", {}, data)
     return base64.b64encode(str(data[0]))
 
 
+def getStringFromPixbuf(pixbuf):
+    data = [""]
+    pixbuf.save_to_callback(_saveDataToBufferCb, "png", {}, data)
+    return str(data[0])
+
+
 def _saveDataToBufferCb(buf, data):
     data[0] += buf
     return True