On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Jason Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would it be possible to get thumbnails for opendocuments to be produced by > nautilus, currently tracker produces them if you have thumbnail creation > enabled and tracker is running but nautilus could be made to do so with a > very small amount of work. (thunar, dolphin etc can already do this ) > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/25827 Open since > 2005 :( > > As I said there is already a binary (/usr/bin/tracker-thumbnailer) that can > produce the thumbnails, all that is needed is some keys in gconf and maybe > tweaking of tracker-thumbnailer to output the file to the location that > nautilus asks for, or a patch to nautilus to not require the output file... > (the gconf key has a output location that if not used triggers a thumbnail > fail response from nautilus) > > Note also that all that the thumbnailer does is extract the existing > thumbnail image from the open document zip archive.... > > Another related bug - > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/135324 > Forum - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=76566 > Brainstorm - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4367/ > > Thanks > > Jason Taylor
Maybe it's time to make a package for these thumbnailers that keep cropping up instead of whacking the thumbnailer moles as not-Nautilus' bug. XUbuntu already does this for thunar-thumbnailers. A nautilus-thumbnailers package doesn't seem like a far-fetched idea to me. The strange dependencies this package might have concerns me though. Any thoughts? -A. Walton > > -- > "A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a > battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day." - Calven > > -- > ubuntu-desktop mailing list > ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop > > -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
