Thumbnail AI files - Hardy

[Chris Mohler]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:02 PM, sktsee <sktsee at tulsaconnect.com> wrote:
>
>
>  On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 12:15 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote:
>  > I have a favor to ask - would someone who is still running Gusty
>  > please download this file and confirm that a thumbnail icon is
>  > generated in nautilus?
>  >
>  > http://download.yousendit.com/ACF40ED435652330
>  >
>  > It's a ~2MB Adobe Illustrator file that should be viewable in evince
>  > (Document Viewer) and Adobe Reader for linux.
>  >
>  > Thanks!
>  > Chris
>  >
>  Hi Chris. I downloaded your illustrator file and can confirm that
>  Nautilus generates a thumbnail for it, but only after clicking once on
>  it (I've set Nautilus to open/launch on double-click).  Nautilus did not
>  generate a thumbnail automatically like it does for PDF files and other
>  mime-types.
>
>  The app Nautilus uses to generate the thumbnail is evince-thumbnailer.
>  I'm not sure though what mechanism Nautilus relies on to determine when
>  to generate a thumbnail for a particular mime-type and when to use a
>  theme icon.

Also - I can manually run evince-thumbnailer, but have not the
slightest idea of how to generate the garbage in .thumbnails that
somehow attaches it to the file  :D

Chris