[Thunar-dev] Thunar Architecture (relations)

[Benedikt Meurer]

dannym wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Am Freitag, den 01.04.2005, 22:16 +0200 schrieb 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.
> 
> 
> What is that ?
> Do you mean storing the thumbs md5ed into $HOME/.thumbnails or such ?

Read the 0.7 thumbnail spec.

> cheers,
>    Danny

greets,
Benedikt