From kde-devel  Thu Oct 29 11:09:17 2009
From: "Peter Penz" <peter.penz () gmx ! at>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:09:17 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: ThumbCreator questions
Message-Id: <20091029110917.271690 () gmx ! net>
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Hi Stefan,

> Hi,
> 
> I'm hacking on a ThumbCreator plugin for Palapeli puzzles. It seems to
> work, 
> but I've got some questions:
> 
> 1. In Dolphin, the thumbnail is only displayed in the "Information" area,
> not 
> in the central list view. What could be the reason for this?

In the Information Panel the caching mechanism of the thumbnails is not used. I guess (but I'm not sure) that probably you have some outdated thumbnails in your ~/.thumbnail directory (maybe those caches have been created during your code was not finalized). Either adjusting the timestamp of your files or deleting the ~/.thumbnail directory could bypass this problem.

> 2. Image previews (the image/* mimetypes) have some nice shadow around it.
> Is 
> there an easy way to get this, or do I have to copy code from the image 
> thumbnail creator? (If the latter is true, where can I find it?)

The shadow is drawn by a private class in kdelibs/kfile/kfilepreviewgenerator.cpp

I'd also be happy to have this kind of shadow available for other usecases too (e. g. in the Information Panel), but I currently don't have the time to do the refactoring and think about a proper integration of this shadow to the thumbnails :-/

Best regards,
Peter

> 
> Greetings
> Stefan
 
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