Thumbnailer for directories

[David Faure]

On Saturday 14 February 2009, David nolden wrote:
> Hi! I'd first like to know if some code for this already exists, else I'd like 
> to implement it(Unless it proves to be too much work).
> 
> Dolphin/konqueror/whatever should show some of the thumbnails of items within 
> the directory as thumbnail for the directory. This is one of the core features 
> my mother(an Artist) is missing under linux.
> 
> Has any work in this direction happened already, or can someone give me a hint 
> where to look to get a fast start?

Do you mean the konqueror-KDE3 feature ("Directory show contents" or whatever
it was called -- iirc it gave it the icon of the most common mimetype inside
the directory, but better double check to be sure, I didn't use it myself),

or more the Windows XP-like feature (a 2x2 tile with the previews of the first 4 items?)

In any case, this wasn't done by kio_thumbnail in kde3 afaik, but by libkonq code,
however I don't see why it couldn't be done by kio_thumbnail and KIO::PreviewJob,
using the inode/directory mimetype...

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Qt Software @ Nokia to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).