[Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

[Benedikt Meurer]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> 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?

No.

Benedikt