I want to include a simple PDF thumbnailer for thunar, which uses ImageMagick. I know there is already one, but it depends on evince being installed which would require a number of gnome libraries - not everyone wants to do this, especially not for a simple thumbnail.
The trouble is if I include a thumbnailer which supports a format already supported by an existing thumbnailer - what happens? I presume mine (being added to the system later) would override thunar's default, which probably isn't the intended option. If you have evince installed then I would say it is the best (fastest) means of thumbnailing a PDF. This this in mind I want to propose to Benedict that the .desktop files for each thumbnailer have another field: X-Thumbnailer-Priority which is a number: 1 being a low priority and anything above that increasingly higher priority. The default priority for any thumbnailer in thunar should be 10, that way when I want to include (for example) the PDF thumbnailer I can set the priority to be 5... when /usr/libexec/thunar-vfs-update-thumbnailers-cache-1 is run by the user the highest priority thumbnailers which have their TryExec found will be added to the thumbnailer cache. For example if evince is not installed and /usr/libexec/thunar-vfs-update-thumbnailers-cache-1 is run it, 1. looks at both thunar-thumbnailers' and thunar's (evince) .desktop files 2. sees that evince has a higher priority (because it is faster it should be given the higher priority) 3. sees that evince-thumbnailer is not on tha $PATH, so uses the thumbnailer with the next highest priority. This seems like the simplest solution to me, as it only requires the thunar-vfs-update-thumbnailers-cache-1 command to be updated. This also fixes a problem caused by ffmpeg-thumbnailer, which can override totem-thumbnailer. Erlend _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
