[Thunar-dev] Thunar-thumbnailers updated

Erlend Davidson E.R.M.Davidson at sms.ed.ac.uk
Thu Feb 8 21:45:46 CET 2007



Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Erlend Davidson wrote:
>   
>>> ...looks wrong to me.
>>> Having additional mime types doesn't hurt. Restricting to the mime types
>>>       
>> Ok, I've just updated SVN.
>>
>>     
>>>> Is there a page in the documentation explaining what formats thunar can 
>>>> thumbnail by default (i.e. without thunar-thumbnailers) and what their 
>>>> dependencies are?  Users won't realise they need totem for video 
>>>> thumbnails to work.  It would also help me think of thumbnailers to 
>>>> implement in thunar-thumbnailers.
>>>>
>>>> There's quite a nice video thumbnailer using mplayer, which I hope to 
>>>> include:
>>>> http://me2030581.googlepages.com/
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Basically all supported GNOME thumbnailers. I doubt that there's a
>>> complete list of these. Nevertheless installing a video thumbnailer
>>> won't hurt. Thunar will use that instead of the GNOME fallback.
>>>       
>> Actually Dirk Vanden Boer is writing a videothumbnailer (he posted to 
>> goodies-dev).  It's already very good, although it only works for 
>> ffmpeg-based files.
>>     
>
> Yep seen that. Definitely something for thunar-thumbnailers. He should
> get an account for goodies SVN.
Do you want to e-mail him, set that up etc?

As for including videothumbnailer in thunar-thumbnailers, how should I 
do that if there are separate repos for both?



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