Re: [Nautilus-list] thumbnails..

[Jens Finke <jens triq net>]

On 29 Mar 2002, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:

> I came accross this doc:
> 
>     http://triq.net/~pearl/thumb-spec.php
> 
> which is a thumbnail standard proposal so that apps like
> Gimp/nautilus/whatever could share thumbnails. It looks like not much
> should be changed to be "compliant" really. Though it looked it might be
> slightly overkill on some situations. But interoperability is a good
> thing.
> 
> Not that I know much about those things, but I thought this might be
> interesting to someone. Gimp is probably going to support it in the
> future. It might be a good thing to get gimp and nautilus operate
> together with thumbnails.

AFAIK the nautilus people are aware of this spec. I've wrote a first
general implementation of this standard for the gnome platform. If you are
interested in it look into the libpreview module in CVS.

Regards,

  Jens