Thumbnailer for directories

[Peter Penz]

Am Monday, 16. February 2009 23:33:39 schrieb 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...

Slighthly off-topic, but I think it is important to mention it: For KDE 4.4 I 
thought about adding the possibility to Dolphin/Konqueror to reflect the state 
of files/directories for CVS/SVN (e. g. like in 
http://www.ezsvn.com/images/tortoise1.gif)

It would be cool if there would be the possibility for applications to offer a 
kind of plugin for the thumbnailer.