The thumbnailer works great now
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Yes, and this will perhaps provide the motivation Gnome needs to strip
the draw a box around all thumbnails code and put it into the
thumbnailers themselves where it belongs.
FYI, with Karmic if the thumbnail is small enough (though I'm not sure
exactly how Gnome determines this value) the
Hmm, didn't know about this bug... The discussion on ELF binaries probably
isn't helpful to you, it mostly goes along the lines of:
You think Linux is OpenWindows? Funny... -- jrusinek
So, if you guys know of some way to change the icon that gets rid of the
annoying border on newer versions of
Well you can right-click - Properties - Click the icon and change it,
which is probably controlled by some .dotfile in the home directory, but
I'm not sure if modifying that file is the right way to go about
changing icons programmatically.
The ugly border is because you're not actually changing
So I've created the gnome-exe-thumbnailer package for Karmic. The goal
is this:
If file is executable permissions, show just the embedded exe
If file is not executable, show its icon contained in a generic program
window with a Wine logo embedded on the side.
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Yeah, I'm aware of why the border shows up - older versions of nautilus
didn't do that so I was a tad irritated when they added the border for
images less than the thumbnail size. At one time I was trying to
explore how text files have custom icons, but I didn't see a way to
gain access to that
Can you post a screenshot? It doesn't use a Wine emblem?
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An emblem would be a similar idea, although I don't think nautilus
exposes that functionality to thumbnailer scripts.
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I really don't think the thumbnailer is the right way to do it.So
it's going to look like this in Karmic?
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21331762/gnome-exe-thumbnailer.png
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Yes, and this will perhaps provide the motivation Gnome needs to strip
the draw a box around all thumbnails code and put it into the
thumbnailers themselves where it belongs.
It's either that or hack something into libgnomeui (loses the modularity
of thumbnailers) or define some new custom icon
I'm going to assign this to myself. For Karmic, there will be a new
package (I'm thinking wine-support) that's meant to be installed before
Wine is; this package is where we'll put things like the thumbnailer
script in this bug report and the prompt to install Wine.
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That's great, but I'm not sure the thumbnailer approach is the right
approach, as shown in the images. I'm not sure what the right approach
would be, though. Is there any precedent for executable files with
different icons? .exe files in Ubuntu are kind of like files in an
interpreted language,
The frames need to go, of course, but I believe that could be fixed in
nautilus if there isn't a way to do it already.
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Right. So it would be better to change the actual icons instead of
using a thumbnailer script.
Here's some discussion about the same idea applied to ELF binaries:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5744/
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/elficon
http://www.compholio.com/elficon/
Also, using a thumbnailer as in the gnome-exe-thumbnailer script isn't
even the right approach. Thumbnails are larger than normal icons, and
are displayed with a frame around them, which makes it look all odd.
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It would be better to use the extracted icon as the file's actual icon,
instead of as a thumbnail, in the same way that you can set a custom
icon for a file using the Properties dialog.
Again, I'm not sure if there's any precedent for this, though (using
different icons for files of the same MIME
Well, the file association would be used for that, right? Or are .exe
files not associated with Wine by default?
Here's a mockup of what I'm imagining. I'm not sure there's really a
precedent for this, though. If you have SVG files associated with
Inkscape, you don't see SVG thumbnails with a
** Attachment added: Full-size icons with CrossOver emblems.png
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You make a good point Endolith, although I don't think we currently have
a mechanism inside the thumbnailer for determining which of
Wine/Crossover/etc will open a particular executable. I'll try and talk
to Codeweavers about it.
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I think it makes sense to add a Wine icon (emblem?) over top of the
exe's built-in icon, to indicate that it's going to be run under Wine.
If the exe were going to be run through something else (CrossOver? a
virtual Windows machine?) then it could have a different emblem
representing that.
If
I'm not convinced this should be built into Wine, but it should be
assigned to something.
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Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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The original icon should be the large one, not the Wine icon.
Actually, we may not even want to bother with a Wine bottle at all.
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From a users POV it makes no sense at all that an icon isnt displayed if
a Window software CD is inserted. After all, putting an W2k+ software
CD into Windows 98 still shows the CD icon I presume. So there is no
automatic Icon means software will work properly, or even at all
correlation.
Also
Here's what the gnome-exe-thumbnailer script
(http://www.mediafire.com/?ky94kc2jdjb) does to the icons, as mentioned.
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And here's the script itself (public domain, by qaaq on Ubuntu
Brainstorm). It doesn't seem to work on most icons.
I changed the install instructions a little to re-use the built-in MIME
type:
sudo apt-get install sharutils icoutils
sudo cp gnome-exe-thumbnailer /usr/local/bin
sudo chmod
Also the menu icon found in /usr/share/pixmaps/wine.svg is probably
better than the one embedded in the script.
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The original icon should always be displayed, whether Wine is installed
or not, and a dialog will explain that it cannot be run without Wine,
offering a button to install Wine.
If Wine has been installed, it would probably be beneficial to still pop
up something (notification area balloon) to
having nautilus displaying icons for those would give the false
impression that they can be used which is not true, the thumbnailer
should be installed in wine rather
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** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Wishlist
Status: New = Triaged
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not sure the bug number now but that's something which has already been
requested and that nautilus will not do, the thumbnailing can be done by
some other software which understand the format used there though
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Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been
reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.
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Assignee: (unassigned) = Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
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Yeah, but presumably nautilus would then have to call the thumbnailer.
We have several gnome-thumbnailer-foo packages in universe; are you
proposing creating a new one?
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Yes. Or install it when Wine is installed, or whichever package ships the icon
tool referenced above. Nautilus calls libgnomeui to create thumbnails, and
there's a well written guide for ISVs to integrate into the GNOME desktop
correctly written here:
Retargetting to libgnomeui then. Thank you!
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Sourcepackagename: nautilus = libgnomeui
Status: Invalid = New
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It's not libgnomeui's job either; did you click the link?
gnome_thumbnailer looks up the mime-type via GConf, finds the
thumbnailer responsible for it, and runs it over the file that Nautilus
gives it. You install a new thumbnailer by adding the mime-type in GConf
and specifying the thumbnailer.
Shouldn't Gnome recognize these icons WITHOUT Wine installed? The use
case I'm thinking of is someone downloading an executable file off the
internet (or by inserting a CD). When they double click it without Wine
installed, we need to inform them about Wine and offer to install it; I
see no
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