[Thunar-dev] Thumbnails for HTML documents

[Erlend Davidson]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 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. ;-)
>   
Attached a rough latex thumbnailer. Uses latex to generate a dvi and 
then convert to output a png.
>   
>> 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.
>   
Does anybody know how konqueror or nautilus thumbnails text?

I've looked at text2gif.

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Ok, sign up for an account, see
>
>  http://goodies.xfce.org/contribute/user-accounts
>
> I'll setup the project.
I've signed up for the 'goodies' project (svn access with no rsa-dsa key).


Erlend
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