[Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

[Mathias Brodala]

Hello Benedikt.

Benedikt Meurer, 30.12.2006 13:37:
> Erlend Davidson wrote:
>> I'd love to contribute some thumbnailers (I use some less common file
>> formats, e.g. eps and I'd love to have them thumbnailed).  The trouble
>> is, while I can program well in C++, I don't know where to start with
>> writing for thunar.  Is there a howto on writing plugins / thumbnailers?
>>
>> I'm not even entirely sure what a VFS does, I assume it lets you view
>> files without having them in their normal folders?
> 
> Thumbnailers are easy. You don't need to know any of the internals of
> Thunar. Just write an application that accepts atleast three parameters
> (the desired thumbnail size, the input file and the output file) and
> you're done.

This is what „kwebdesktop“ offers:

$ kwebdesktop 640 480 thumbnail.png file:///home/you/your-document.html

And there you go: you have your thumbnail. How difficult would it be to
integrate this?


Regards, Mathias

-- 
debian/rules

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 252 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/thunar-dev/attachments/20061230/9a1f595b/attachment.pgp>