[Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

[Erlend Davidson]

On 31 Dec 2006, at 12:52, 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).

Some problems with thumbnailing .tex files is that they can take some  
time to compile, they change a lot (if you are editing them) and a  
lot of the time they are full of compile errors if you are writing a  
large file over a long period.

What do you think of thumbnailing plain-text files?  Konqueror does  
this, and according to my flatmate (a kde user) it's very useful just  
to tell that a file isn't empty.

Erlend