Hi! I was quiet suprised when suddenly I saw odt-thumbnails in my document folder. Reinstalling on another system I was not able to reproduce this behaviour at first.
I figured out, that Tracker is responsible for making the thumbnails of odt. files. But, I guess, you must run "tracker-preferences" first (as non-root user). There on the Files tab you should check the entry "Generate thumbnails". After that wait for a while, maybe this will take effect at least after the next reboot or the next day. So, there's no script or anything. So I imported the .thumbnail/normal-folder into F-Spot and selected a preview of an odt-File. With <Ctrl>+I F-Spot shows meta data. It says: CreatorTool: tracker thumbnail factory Selecting another thumbnail file (this time of a .pdf-file) it says: Creator Tool: GNOME::ThumbnailFactory (you also can check these by "xxd image.png" xxd makes a hexdump and shows information included in it. Ok, so it's tracker. Thumbnails generated for .pdf files are well done, they even have a small black border and have no opacity/tranparency. The odt.thumbnails have a) no border b) are transparent. The binary responsible for the odt-thumbnails is: /usr/bin/tracker-thumbnailer from the package "tracker". I searched for any options or preferences about how to generate these thumbnails. tracker-thumbnailer --help does not exist. and the manpage to tracker-thumbnailer offers no further options. In gconf-editor I either found any options for tracker. Anyone an idea how to change this behaviour? The out-of-the-box thumbnailing for odt-files with tracker is great. It's quite annoyingly though, e.g. when you have a non-solid-white background, then it's hard to see these thumbnails in nautilus. I append 2 screenshots, you can see the odt-thumbnails and the pdf- thumbnails, and the problem when a non-solid or darker background is set. Regards, Chris PS: Running gutsy 7.10 on a clean install. ** Attachment added: "tracker-odt-thumbnails-nautilus-bright.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16284405/tracker-odt-thumbnails-nautilus-bright.png -- Gutsy: OpenOffice thumbnails transparent https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135324 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
