Hello, Gwyddion creates TMS[1]-conforming thumbnails of loaded files so that other applications can display these thumbnails too.
Some time ago people asked for thumbnails of files that have never been opened in Gwyddion. Gwyddion 2.12 comes with gwyddion-thumbnailer which does exactly that. Open a directory of SPM files in nautilus and thumbnails will be created on the fly. So, where's the catch? This integration has to be done for each desktop environment separately. Now it works in Gnome (and it's quite cool) and I suppose it works in XFce which can use Gnome thumbnailers. It might also work in KDE4 although I admit I've never tested it live. In other TMS[1]-conforming environments, you can at least manually run gwyddion-thumbnailer to create thumbnails for all files within some directory structure (see the manual page). Neither MS Windows nor OS X follows, surprisingly, the TMS and each has its own mechanism for file thumbnails/previews. I cannot write thumbnailers for these. I cannot beacuse the problematic part is the integration: proper interaction with the specific system, registration of the service, using properly platform libraries and generally getting it work, which requires familiarity with the platform and lots of testing. So it has to be done by someone actually using the platform. Reading a SPM file and rendering it to an image is the easy part -- and I've done this part so it can be reused. So, if you want this feature for your desktop environment, you have to write it. Or bribe someone to write it. Or blackmail. Or seduce. Whatever works for you. Waiting won't do. I can help with the implementation, but only help. Thanks for skipping to the end of this long mail, Yeti [1] Thumbnail Managing Standard, http://triq.net/~jens/thumbnail-spec/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Gwyddion-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gwyddion-users
