[Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

[Benedikt Meurer]

Erlend Davidson wrote:
>> 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.

Well, that's the challenge. ;-)

> 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.

I've always dislike text file previews in both Konqueror and Nautilus.
There's still an open feature request for this in Thunar. Adding this as
3rd party thumbnailer might be the right way.

> Erlend

Benedikt