[digiKam-users] Digikam .xcf saga

[Hans-Peter]

On Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:26:09 +0200
leoutation at gmx.fr wrote:

> On 8/23/19 4:29 AM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > The solution with tumbler is somewhere in one plugin :
> >
> > https://github.com/xfce-mirror/tumbler/tree/master/plugins
> >

I also found
https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/gnome-xcf-thumbnailer
however on my Manjaro this is not installed; instead i found a
/usr/lib/xfce4/xcf-thumbnailer
Don't know where the source comes from, maybe an XFC4 variant of the gnome
thumbnailer.

HP

> > ..
> > cover-thumbnailer => ebook
> > desktop-thumbnailer => desktop files
> > ffmpeg-thumbnailer => ffmpeg
> > font-thumbnailer => Fonts
> > gst-thumbnailer => GStreamer
> > jpeg-thumbnailer => JPEG
> > odf-thumbnailer  => libreoffice
> > pixbuf-thumbnailer => Pixmap ???
> > poppler-thumbnailer => PDF, PS
> > raw-thumbnailer => RAW
> >
> > We already has ffmpeg in digiKam and it do not work
> >
> > Rest : gstreamer and pixbuf
> > When you run tumbler on the console, there is some debug statments about
> > XCF processing ?  
> No Tumbler executable.
> When launching Thunar in console, it displays xcf thumbnails but nothing
> about XCF.
> I think Tumbler uses gdk-pixbuf2 to display .xcf thumbnails, maybe...
> 
> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/tumbler
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GdkPixbuf
> https://developer.gnome.org/gdk-pixbuf/unstable//
> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gdk-pixbuf2/
> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/gdk-pixbuf2
> 
> Executable 'gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer' in console:
>   % gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer -h
> Usage:
>    gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer [OPTION?] [INPUT FILE] [OUTPUT FILE] Thumbnail
> images
> Help Options:
>    -h, --help                        Show help options
> Application Options:
>    -s, --size                        Size of the thumbnail in pixels
>    --g-fatal-warnings                Make all warnings fatal
> 
> 
> 'gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer testmader-png-1.png testpng.jpeg'
> generates 256x192 pixels image 'testpng.jpeg'
> But it fails with .xcf
> 'gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer testmader-xcf-1.xcf test.jpeg'
> 
> ** (gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer:2132): WARNING **: 11:51:28.037: Could not
> thumbnail 'testmader-xcf-1.xcf': Couldn?t recognize the image file
> format for file ?/home/fre/Bureau/gimp/test-gimp2.10/testmader-xcf-1.xcf?
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > Gilles Caulier
> >
> > Le jeu. 22 août 2019 à 21:27, <leoutation-W9aAOI/tHPE at public.gmane.org
> > <mailto:leoutation at gmx.fr>> a écrit :
> >
> >     On 8/22/19 8:47 PM, Hans-Peter wrote:  
> >      > On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:51:24 +0200
> >      > leoutation at gmx.fr
> >      > <mailto:leoutation at gmx.fr> wrote: 
> >      >> On 8/22/19 10:16 AM, Gilles Caulier wrote:  
> >      >>> Hi,
> >      >>>  
> >      > ...  
> >      >>>  
> >      >> I tried to find out software that can display Gimp 2.10 XCF
> >      >> format: except Gimp, none !
> >      >> To see my work with an other software than Gimp, i have to  
> >     convert .xcf  
> >      >> open source to .psd photoshop proprietary... :(  
> >      >
> >      > I believe tumbler (https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/tumbler)
> >      > can  
> >     at least  
> >      > show thumbnails. Don't know if it uses some other app to
> >      > generate  
> >     them.  
> >      >  
> >
> >     Great, Tumbler displays multi-layers xcf thumbnails in last Thunar .
> >     It seems it's the only one, except Gimp, that can do it.
> >     https://github.com/xfce-mirror/tumbler
> >     I don't know if it possible to integrate it in Digikam...  
> 
> --
> Greetings
> 
> Maderios
> 


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