[Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

[Erlend Davidson]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> On 12/5/06, Mathias Brodala <info at noctus.net> wrote:
>   
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> Thunar is able to show thumbnails of HTML documents if they were created by
>> visiting folders with Konqueror.
>>
>> Could this thumbnailer be built-in? Or how can I enable or trigger it without
>> Konqueror if it already is?
>>
>>     
>
> Benedikt can correct me if I'm wrong, but Konqueror, Nautilus, The
> Gimp, and Thunar are share a standard Thumbnail cache. So even if
> Thunar can't create thumbnails for a file type, if another app has
> created them (such as viewing images in The Gimp) Thunar will show
> 'em.
>
> Thunar does have support for using Gnome's thumbnailers if GConf is
> around during build time - if you have Gnome installed and Nautilus
> has a HTML thumbnailer, then consider rebuilding Thunar. However,
> Thunar doesn't have support for finding and using Konqueror
> thumbnailers.
How do the thumbnailers work?  Can more formats be added as plugins?