thumbnails

[Chris Mohler]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 5:49 AM, norman <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> To add further confusion to the situation if I load the file, which is
> there as the  generic icon, into Gimp and then try to 'save as' I am
> told the file already exists. That is what I would expect but, when I
> accept to overwrite the existing file the saved file now appears as an
> ordinary thumbnail. As far as I am aware, nothing has been changed.
>
> Curiouser and curiouser . . .

OK - take a look at this bug I filed against GIMP:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551995

The gist of it is that (IMO) GIMP should create a gconf key when
installed to offer itself as a thumbnail service for XCF files.  It
does not.  If you create a new XCF file, a thumbnail is created.  If
you just open and close an XCF file in GIMP, the thumbnail is created.
 However, if you copy over a XCF file (like from a backup) no
thumbnail is created.  Since I'm a graphic designer by trade, this
annoyed me quite a bit - but adding those keys via gconf (and
installing the plug-in) has worked for several months now.
Occasionally one will fail, but at least I can open a directory full
of XCF files and 99% of them will get previews.

I've also added keys to tell GIMP to thumbnail my PSD files.

HTH,
Chris