Linus Torvalds Says Gnome 3 is Crazy and Goes for Xfce!

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 16:22:40 +0800
Auguste Pop <auguste at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org>
> wrote:
> > On sam., 2011-08-06 at 15:57 +0800, Auguste Pop wrote:
> >> xfce, or you can say thunar, does not use conventional
> >> thumbnailers. that's a major inconvenience for me.
> >
> > What do you mean by “conventional thumbnailers”? Tumbler uses the
> > thumbnailing spec (see http://live.gnome.org/ThumbnailerSpec).
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Yves-Alexis
> >
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> i understand that thunar uses tumbler to manage thumbnails, and
> tumbler is capable of generating thumbnails for some specific file
> formats. however, we used to be able to extend the thumbnailer's
> capability easily by creating a simple desktop file and a working
> script to generate the png file. and tumbler do not recognize these
> thumbnailers, at least now.

It's on the TODO list and will be implemented as a tumbler plugin if
time permits. It requires a few changes in the core of tumbler though
(plugins need to be able to announce that their supported URI schemes
and MIME types have changed).

  - Jannis