[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 15148] New: Custom video thumbnails

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15148

            Bug ID: 15148
           Summary: Custom video thumbnails
    Classification: Xfce Core
           Product: Thunar
           Version: git
          Hardware: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Medium
         Component: General
          Assignee: xfce-bugs at xfce.org
          Reporter: allcoms at gmail.com
                CC: benny at xfce.org, hjudt at xfce.org
  Target Milestone: 1.8.5

The main reason I prefer Thunar over other open source file managers is because
it currently has the best support for video thumbnails being the only app that
can generate thumbnails for video files stored on network drives. I'd like to
see Thunar take its support for video thumbnail previews to the next level by
introducing custom video thumbnails. The problem this feature request addresses
is that most file managers will usually use the first frame of a video as its
preview. In many cases, this frame will be entirely blank and/or match several
other videos within the same folder hence making the preview rather useless,
especially if all the files have non-descript names too. This is where custom
video thumbnails come in.

The way I envision this working is that video thumbnails would get generated as
they do now for all files in a folder but the user would be also be able to
mouseover a video file in Thunar's Icons view mode (with thumbnail previews
enabled) then, when holding a modifier key such as ALT, the user would be able
to use either the mouse scrollwheel or the arrow keys to adjust/update the icon
preview image of the video file under the cursor - every scroll/keypress
updating the icon preview with a image a second forward or backwards into the
video. This to me seems like a nicer workflow than having to rename the files
to locate them easier.

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