On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 23:13 +0100, Justyn Butler wrote:
> On 20/09/2007, Peter Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > An aside (but tangentially related to icons), is that it wouldn't be too
> > hard if someone wanted to write a thumbnailer for gschem schematics and
> > PCBs (bonus points for using Ben Jackson's GIMP magic to make it look
> > like a real board ;))
> 
> I didn't find a whole lot of info on how nautilus interacts with the
> thumbnailers.
> This cached ximian page explains it though:
> http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:pUcQZbWN7mMJ:primates.ximian.com/~federico/docs/gnome-isv-guide/index.html
> 
> Looking at the other gnome thumbnailers, each is standalone and uses
> the relevant application library.
> 
> Is x_image.c suitable as a starting point for a gschem thumbnailer?

Off the top of my head, I don't think so.

I was thinking we would write a small thumbnailer program / script which
would open gschem with appropriate .scm invocation to export a
small .png of the page. It won't be possible to use libgeda to do this -
as the GDK graphics are in gschem only. You could export postscript from
libgeda if that helps though.

We might need a little work to ensure no prompts / windows are shown if
we use gschem directly.

Regards,

Peter C.




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