Hmmm... I guess it'll need to happen as part of the category renderer template, so the scope can nominate a preferred fallback image. The rest of it (making sure the fallback image is displayed when album art or some such can't be retrieved, or substituting a default fallback image if the scope hasn't specified one) is up to the shell.
I can work on this next week, if you like. I don't think it'll be difficult. I left this alone mainly because the bulk of the work could be done by the shell already. All it needs to do is display *something* when a request to retrieve artwork fails. Allowing the scope to specify a custom fallback image is just icing on the cakeā¦ Cheers, Michi. On 11 Dec 2014, at 20:47 , Thomas Strehl <thomas.str...@canonical.com> wrote: > Michi: what was the proposed solution here? Providing a default > fallback, with the scope being able to override the fallback per > category? > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to unity- > scopes-api in Ubuntu. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1324142 > > Title: > Support providing fallback images > > Status in Thumbnail generator for all kinds of files: > New > Status in unity-scopes-api package in Ubuntu: > New > Status in unity-scopes-shell package in Ubuntu: > New > Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: > Triaged > > Bug description: > If the URI for a scope result icon can not be loaded, the scope result > is not easily visible. > > To counter this, the shell should replace the result image with a > fallback image if the Image QML component changes to the Error state. > At a minimum a single standard fallback image would be sufficient, but > letting the scope pick a custom fallback via the category renderer > template would be better. > > One reason I'd like to see this is so we can switch the album art > image provider to stop returning a fallback image. This has been > requested by the music-app guys, and seems sensible since we might > want different fallbacks in different contexts: > > https://code.launchpad.net/~jamesh/thumbnailer/no-fallback- > albumart/+merge/219460 > > It might also be useful for remote scopes using http: URIs for result > icons. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/thumbnailer/+bug/1324142/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1324142 Title: Support providing fallback images To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thumbnailer/+bug/1324142/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs