[Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

[Erlend Davidson]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>   
>>>> So am I correct is saying that a gif image is actually thumbnailed by 
>>>> converting it to a png?  What do you use to do that, imagemagick?  I am 
>>>> asking because the 'convert' binary could be used for eps.
>>>>         
>>> The image thumbnailers use GdkPixbuf (except for JPEGs, where we use
>>> libjpeg directly).
>>>       
>> The PNG output file must comply with the thumbnail standard, see
>>
>>  http://jens.triq.net/thumbnail-spec/creation.html#AEN139
>>     
>
> Ok, I added support to thunar-vfs to load thumbnailers from .desktop
> files rather than hardcoded defaults. This should make it easier to
> extend Thunar with new thumbnailers. The stuff is documented in the user
> guide, which still looks for contributors BTW. ;-)
>
> http://thunar.xfce.org/documentation/C/customizing-thunar.html#thumbnailers
>
> I'd like to see a repository of additional thumbnailers/scripts. If
> somebody agrees to maintain the thumbnailers, I can setup a goodies
> project. I bet there are a lot of interesting file formats, which don't
> have thumbnailers right now (i.e. I'd very much welcome a TeX
> thumbnailer, which automatically detects whether to use PDFTeX or LaTeX,
> and a .fig thumbnailer would also be nice).
Here's one for xmgrace .agr files (which generally contain a graph).  
There is one problem however - .agr files have a mime-type of text/plain 
so thunar won't know how to distinguish them from any other text files.
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