[Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

[Benedikt Meurer]

Erlend Davidson wrote:
>>> 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?

Yes. They are separate programs that are invoked with the input file,
the desired size and the output file. You can either register them with
GConf or if the thumbnailer is simple (like the builtin thumbnailers),
they can be hardcoded in thunar-vfs.

If you want to contribute a HTML thumbnailer, feel free to do so.

Benedikt