On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 13:28 +1100, John Pye wrote: > Hi all > > I came across some interesting information about files from the > (commercial closed-source) program SolidWorks. This program uses the > Microsoft 'structured file' storage format, and contains preview bitmaps > that could very usefully be displayed using for Linux users via > Nautilus. This would be especially good because SolidWorks doesn't > provide a Linux-based file viewer of any sort (shame on them!). > > On Ubuntu 7.10, with the package libgsf-bin installed, I was able to > extract a PNG preview from various files using this command: > > gsf cat mydrawingfile.SLDDRW PreviewPNG > preview.png && eog preview.png > > What would be required to make Nautilus display those preview images > automatically?
Yes, make a script that does this and set it up as thumbnailer for the right mimetype in gconf at /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/<mimetype>/command and enable it. See the existing ones in gconf for an example. -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
