Sunday, November 1, 2009

Thunar with directory thumbnails

I've recently added directory thumbnails support for Thunar file manager.

You select a file to be shown on its directory icon and ... that's it. Any file that has thumbnail will do. Like images, video, PDF documents and more.




Implementation: Whenever Thunar looks up icon for directory, it checks if image file "directory/.DirThumb" exists. If so, Thunar composes content of .DirThumb over direcory icon from current icon theme.

Installation: Patch to thunar 1.0.1, at xfce issue tracker #5945

2 comments:

Vincent said...

Looks good. Is there also a way to remove a thumbnail from a folder after it's set?

Anonymous said...

Patch it is not applied :(

Hunk #1 FAILED at 169.
Hunk #1 FAILED at 107.
Hunk #1 FAILED at 271.

Thunar sorces vanilla,from xfce-git -thunar-1.0.1

There can be you write the detailed instruction?