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List:       klik-devel
Subject:    Re: [klik-devel] Thumbnailers Overview
From:       Jason Taylor <killerkiwi2005 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-01-04 3:02:19
Message-ID: 94dd8f6f0601031902l1b1b74aal5fa960693e7b38ec () mail ! gmail ! com
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Thats a great idea.... then theming would work if avalible / minus the
problem of if the theme changed the icon would not be updated......


KillerKiwi


On 1/4/06, Luke Monahan <lukemonahan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> That looks really good, one of the final pieces of the puzzle to get
> klik onto more desktops.
>
> Is it a technical possibility to do the following:
>
> - Use the name of the application icon first, and KIconLoader to fetch
> that icon from the current theme and set it as the thumbnail.
> - If that fails (i.e. no icon in the theme) use the thumbnail included
> in the cmg
>
> Just wondering, as it would be nice to fit in to the selected icon
> theme where possible.
>
> I don't mind testing this out either.  Let me know where to get the
> cmg packages.
>
> Cheers,
>
> L.
>
> On 1/4/06, Jason Taylor <killerkiwi2005@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I finally subscribed to this list and though I'd put a short overview
> > of where we are up to out there.
> >
> > We are going to add an icon to each klik package by appending to the
> > CMG an AR archive containing an icon. (This will be upgraded in the
> > future to place the icon at the start of the file eg app format)
> >
> > We can then write a thumbnailer for both KDE and GNOME that will
> > display the icon when the file is viewed.
> >
> > KDE Example
> > http://img492.imageshack.us/img492/3671/screenshot9vv.png
> >
> > Remaining Issues:
> >   * My C skills for KDE development, hopefully John Tapsell ( johnflux
> > ) will be helping out with this
> >   * KDE Thumbnailing settings, These are a bit strange as it is set to
> > not display thumbnails for files over 1mg by default.
> >  * Frames in GNOME, this will be resolved with the next GNOME release
> >
> > I think that covers everything, note im hoping that in the future
> > there will be a way of actually setting the icon rather then using a
> > thumbnailer but this should help get things moving
> >
> > KillerKiwi
> >
> > P.S.  Any one interested in testing/helping drop me a line
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> > klik-devel@kde.org
> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/klik-devel
> >
>
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