On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 17:16 -0500, vitamin wrote: > Martin Gregorie wrote: > > This is nothing to do with Gnome > I was reading the OP's request as being for icons in lists of files in a directory, which has everything to do with Nautilus and, because Nautilus is separate from desktops (Gnome, KDE, XFCE,...) has nothing to do with either the desktop or Wine. > It has everything to do with Gnome that's the problem. > See above. Its a Nautilus problem unless the OP wants to drag the file onto the desktop, when it becomes a desktop manager problem. > If you search mailing list history you will see people attempting to > add one thing or the other so Wine can directly talk to desktop > environment. All of those attempts were shut down. > I haven't looked, but that's exactly what I'd expect. It is simply not a Wine problem. > If you want something like this - you'll have to create your own > project and convince your distro to include it as a "mod" for Wine. > Wine does not include any desktop environment specific "features". It > have to be standard and work across most/all desktop environments. > Agreed, and already stated, except I think its a Nautilus and/or desktop manager but certainly not a Wine problem. > Optionally you can get Free desktop to cook up a standard for such a > things. Then you have a chance for it to be considered for Wine > inclusion. > Agreed, *except* that Nautilus seems to have a fixed list of file types that can generate thumbnails. I'm a little surprised: a more general, extensible way to say "show an thumbnail image generated from the file alongside this file and this is what you call to generate the thumbnail" would be a reasonable thing to find in Nautilus. > And as far as implementing this, I'm sure distros will be highly > against it. You talking about having a running copy of Wine every time > use wants to browse something. This will dramatically increase start > times and memory usage. > Total agreement, as I've already said to fred2. Doing this, or calling something else that's written as a special wrapper for Windows thumbnail generation plugins is unlikely ever to be written (unless he's volunteering!) I can see such a wrapper being called by the extensible Nautilus rule I mentioned earlier but if it was slow there'd be nobody to blame except the person who used the extensible rule to call it instead of a fast native thumbnail generator. Martin
