[xfdesktop] Where to start if I'm going to add thumbnail-showing functionalities or so?

[Stephan Arts]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Jannis Pohlmann<jannis at xfce.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:28:04 -0700
> "Brian J. Tarricone" <brian at tarricone.org> wrote:
>
>> On 07/28/2009 07:14 PM, Jiason Li wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I was wondering how to add thumbnail-showing functionalities to
>> > xfdesktop, are there any hints/docs/refs?
>> >
>> > Where/Which file/Which line in the sources should I start digging
>> > into?
>> >
>> > any info are appreciated. :-)
>>
>> Now is probably not a good time.  The file backend needs to be
>> completely redone to use GIO instead of thunar-vfs.  After that
>> happens, we'll probably want to use Jannis' tumbler project to get
>> thumbnails.  I don't think it's ready to start working on it yet.
>> Jannis?
>
> Right, there are a few bits missing but since I'm not planning to
> freeze the API up until 1.0.0 (and I'll be starting at 0.1.0), I should
> be able to do a development release in August or September.
>
>  - Jannis

Ok, that leaves me with 1 or 2 months to work on the ristretto
technical specification and design. :-)

When tumbler is released, I'll start fixing up ristretto to use it.

-
Stephan