On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 01:38:05AM -0600, Michael Simmonds wrote:
> Is gwyddion-thumbnailer compatible with recent Windows OS? It ran without
> complaint in TMS mode, but thumbnail views did not appear in Explorer.
Well, MS Windows does not seem to follow the Freedesktop thumbnail
management standard... So gwyddion-thumbnailer can create the thumbnail
images. But you will see them only in Gwyddion and perhaps some other
Unix programs – or not, as Unix programs do not really agree among
themselves how to handle this kind of system integration in MS Windows.
The missing piece is a Windows shell extension (or how it is called now)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb774614%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
which can provide thumbnails to the Windows shell. I do not have the
expertise to write such extension. In fact, I do not even have the
means of testing it properly. I suppose a number of people would
appreciate such extension though.
The generate-a-thumbnail-for-this-SPM-file piece is already implemented
in gwyddion-thumbnailer. For me, this is the easy part. The difficult
part is the proper installation, registration and interfacing to MS
Windows so that it actually works.
Regards,
Yeti
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