[Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

[Benedikt Meurer]

Mathias Brodala wrote:
>> Right now Thunar scales down
>> the 640x480 preview, which is not the optimal result for a webpage (IMHO).
> 
> Well, then you could let the scaling be done via ImageMagick. This way you could
> optimize the thumbnail a bit (sharpening, …). Everything could go into a shell
> script and be used as the thumbnailer’s wrapper.

The scaling is not the problem. Thunar does that very good and very
fast. The real problem is that thumbnailing a webpage at 640x480 does
not yield good results for many webpages. Some may require more space,
some less.

Therefore some magic may be required to detect this.

> Regards, Mathias

Benedikt