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

[Auguste Pop]

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org> wrote:
> 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
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yeah. i know that. i have been using xfce for a while now. and i
really liked it.
i pointed this out for simply information's sake.

best regards,