[Thunar-dev] Thunar Architecture (relations)

[Benedikt Meurer]

dannym wrote:
>>>>But as usual, I'm still open for suggestions on the file properties
>>>>dialog UI (which dictates what we need for the backend classes):
>>>>
>>>>http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/ui:file-properties-dialog
>>>>
>>>
>>>Hm. I've got another idea for the "things to do when we have too much
>>>time on our hands" list. For images, replace the mime icon with the
>>>thumbnail of the image. For example, getting rid of the paintbrush and
>>>jpg icon in this shot:
>>>
>>>http://thunar.xfce.org/wiki/media/ui/20050305-file_properties_general.png
>>
>>Thumbnail support will be in, no matter if we have time or not. ;-)
> 
> 
> Note that thumbnail (gui) support is 1) easy and 2) I already did it
> too ;)
> just tell me when we need it :)
> 
> (although I dont have a thumbnail-in-background generator/reader yet,
> but my comp is too fast for me to be interested in programming that ;))

Filer had it, it was implemented as a D-BUS service. We'll need to turn 
it into a thread instead. What's missing is the support for thumbnail 
repositories, tho.

> cheers,
>    Danny

greets,
Benedikt