Nautilus: disabling PDF file thumbnails selectively ?

Olafur Arason olafra at gmail.com
Wed Apr 5 21:14:12 UTC 2006


I should of sayed in gconf, but I thought that you had mentioned it
in your letter.
So it's /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application at pdf in gconf.

Olafur Arason

On 4/5/06, Olafur Arason <olafra at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's in /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/application at pdf
>
> Olafur Arason
>
> On 4/5/06, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I love it when Nautilus shows thumbnails for pics and videos, very
> > practical. However, I hate it when it thumbnails PDF files.
> >
> > Nautilus is capable of acting selectively depending on the file type: in
> > the Preferences dialog you can fine tune the behaviour independently for
> > Text files, Sound files, and the other files.
> > So is there a way, probably obscure but I don't mind, to get Nautilus to
> > special case PDF files so as to not thumbnail/preview them ?
> >
> > Ideally, would be greatif Nautilus could adopt the plug-in system that
> > Epiphany and Gedit already use, so that one can extend its possibilities
> > when needed. For example we could have a plug-in that let's you fine
> > tune the thumbnail policy, for every file type.
> >
> > --
> > Vince
> >
> >
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