[Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

[Erik Harrison]

On 12/6/06, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> 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 are there any plans to make thumbnailers available at runtime
without GConf?

>
> Benedikt
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-- 
Erik

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