Freedesktop.org makes it clear that they are focused completely on Linux/UNIX platforms: not surprising that Microsoft has ignored them. I agree that it would take a very experienced Windows programmer to make such a shell extension efficiently. Not worth the effort at this point.
So... No more questions. Gwyddion is a superb program that you and your team should be proud of. It will be very valuable to our project. Thanks for your prompt and well-considered answers. I always hesitate to post questions to the open-source community for fear of getting flamed as a newbie, but you have been most gracious and helpful. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: David Nečas (Yeti) [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 9:53 AM To: Gwyddion use discussion Subject: Re: [Gwyddion-users] Metadata in TIFF files On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 01:38:05AM -0600, Michael Simmonds wrote: > Is gwyddion-thumbnailer compatible with recent Windows OS? It ran > without complaint in TMS mode, but thumbnail views did not appear in Explorer. Well, MS Windows does not seem to follow the Freedesktop thumbnail management standard... So gwyddion-thumbnailer can create the thumbnail images. But you will see them only in Gwyddion and perhaps some other Unix programs – or not, as Unix programs do not really agree among themselves how to handle this kind of system integration in MS Windows. The missing piece is a Windows shell extension (or how it is called now) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb774614%28v=vs.85%29.aspx which can provide thumbnails to the Windows shell. I do not have the expertise to write such extension. In fact, I do not even have the means of testing it properly. I suppose a number of people would appreciate such extension though. The generate-a-thumbnail-for-this-SPM-file piece is already implemented in gwyddion-thumbnailer. For me, this is the easy part. The difficult part is the proper installation, registration and interfacing to MS Windows so that it actually works. Regards, Yeti ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform that developers love is also attractive to malware creators. Download this white paper to learn more about secure code signing practices that can help keep Android apps secure. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=65839951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gwyddion-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gwyddion-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform that developers love is also attractive to malware creators. Download this white paper to learn more about secure code signing practices that can help keep Android apps secure. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=65839951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gwyddion-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gwyddion-users
