Re: Freedesktop thumbnail icon support

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2003-09-02 19:23:01 +0300 Nicolas Roard <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 2003-09-01 17:05:50 +0000 Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I just submitted support for Freedesktop thumbnail icons to NSWorkspace. 
> > They work wounderfull inside of GWorkspace, of course only when another 
> > application has already created them. You will only benefit from this 
> > support when Konqueror or another similar file manager is running on your 
> > desktop. Ah yes, you also have to switch thumbnails on with the user 
> > default value GSUseFreedesktopThumbnails, by default they are off.
> >
> > The biggest problem implementing this was a bug in NSBitmapImagerep which I 
> > had to fix first. The second problem the know abnormally of our URL 
> > handling. The rest is just the same code I did mail around half a year ago.
> >
> > Hope you like it
>
> Yes, it's a good addition ! If possible, I think GNUstep should implement 
> freedesktop
> specs when it is reasonable.
> Now we just need a method to create thumbnails according to freedesktop specs 
> in
> GWorkspace (or by a service ?) -- enrico did a thumbnail creation, but I 
> think it is not
> "freedesktop-compatible" ?

Yes, it's a service. I planned to make it "freedesktop-compatible" but, to work 
again on it, I'm waiting for -initWithFocusedViewRect: to be implemented in 
NSBitmapImageRep. Actually, as a workaround, the bundle that creates the thumbnails for 
image files, uses some code taken from ToyViewer that, in some cases, gives problems.