Some MIME-types have multiple reasonable ways to generate a thumbnail for any given file. Since the current thumbnail specification method only supports one thumbnailer per MIME-type, not all files can be thumbnailed. I propose that if a directory in /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers has subdirectories, that each subdirectory's command be registered with libgnomeui [1].
dobey on IRC suggested this might be covered by the XDG thumbnailing specification [2]. However, this spec only covers the formats and storage paths of thumbnails, with nothing about what executables are used to create them. If anybody knows of a standard for the registration of thumbnailer executables, FD.O or otherwise, I am eager to read it. [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497264 [2] http://web.archive.org/web/20070302090724/jens.triq.net/thumbnail-spec/index.html _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
