On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 05:29, Alexander Larsson wrote: > On 10 Jul 2002, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > > > > Is it possible to extend the thumbnailing support in Nautilus? I want to > > write a font-viewer, and it seems like the easiest thing will be to add > > thumbnailing support for fonts, and a nautilus view that will showcase > > one font at a time. > > It's surely possible if you're willing to hack some. I'm not sure how such > a thumbnail would look though. Render "ABCabc"? What if those glyphs don't > exist in the file? Also, won't the icon be rather hard to see and hit? EFM did it this way: http://mandrake.net/images/may31.2000.jpg which shows "AbCd\nEfgh". That worked quite well; I'm not sure how it would behave if it didn't have the right glyphs. I imagine you'd get empty boxes or something. --Ben > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc > alexl redhat com alla lysator liu se > He's a bookish dishevelled astronaut on the wrong side of the law. She's a > cold-hearted antique-collecting schoolgirl in the witness protection program. > They fight crime! > > -- > nautilus-list mailing list > nautilus-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list >
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