[Thunar-dev] A Standard for Thumbnailers

[Benedikt Meurer]

Erlend Davidson wrote:
> However, thunar-vfs-pixbuf-thumbnailer-1 is optimised for this purpose 
> (uses the jpg resizing trick mentioned on the xdg mailing list) and 
> takes just 0.1 seconds to convert the jpeg to a png - but I can't pipe 
> the output from dcraw into it.  For this reason would it be possible to 
> add an option to thunar-vfs-pixbuf-thumbnailer-1 which enables it to 
> take the input image from stdin?

The thunar-vfs-pixbuf-thumbnailer doesn't use any special tricks, it
just a wrapper for GdkPixbuf routines. Check the source it's really simple.

> Erlend

Benedikt