[Thunar-dev] Something weird with thumbnailers (transparency and no drop shadow)

[Petr Zelenka]

The idea with a small icon in some of the corners of the thumbnail
sound really great to me. It would be (IMHO) very useful.

Petr

2007/8/14, Erlend Davidson <E.R.M.Davidson at sms.ed.ac.uk>:
> That fixed it - thanks!
>
> I've been pondering with the idea of introducing a thumbnail for folders
> which contain >= 60% images.  I don't yet know if thunar supports this,
> but first I should probably ask people what they think?  I think it
> might make viewing photograph albums easier.
>
> Also, my flatmate has recently started using thunar/thunar-thumbnailers,
> and while he likes the thumbnails he mentioned that they make it more
> difficult to tell the type of the file.  For example he might have .tex
> .pdf and .dvi files all in the same directory... given that the latter
> two are generated from the .tex, and all three have the same thumbnail
> it is impossible to tell which is the pdf file without looking at the
> file extension.  It can be quite frustrating when you click the wrong
> one and have to wait for eclipse to finish loading.
>
> Would it be possible to have the original file icon in the bottom right
> hand corner of the thumbnail?