How to display additional thumbnails with ROX-filer?

[Semme]

You expect folks to look in PPM.. it's never the case.

[Argolance]

Hello,

You expect folks to look in PPM.. it's never the case.

I admit: absolutely not! It is why I am trying to understand how it works to be able to preconfigure the next release of my iso (ToOpPy Precise 5.4.3)
Something new: when creating xcf file using the latest version of Gimp, I get thumbnails
But I did so many things here and there that I don't know what was wrong or good, what solved this issue... It will be difficult to reproduce the procedure! And what about video thumbnails? It is still a deep "mystery"!

Cordialement.

[Semme]

That's with the item on the other page. Haven't taken the time to proof it yet. All this da_n PROOFING!

[CatDude]

Hello Argolance

...Something new: when creating xcf file using the latest version of Gimp, I get thumbnails

In my experience this is quite normal behaviour.
Try this:
Open up (in GIMP obviously) a pre-existing .xcf file that is not showing a thumbnail image,
now do nothing more than simply save the file.
You should now have a thumbnail image showing in ROX.

The only problem is, it will only show until you reboot or restart the Xserver.


Anyway's mate, back to all this other nonsense.

Curiosity got the better of me,
so i fired up Puppy Precise 5.4.3 (using pfix=ram) and had a crack at this myself.

Apart from these two packages:

• [url=ttp://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/rox/ROX-Lib/2.0.6/rox-lib2-2.0.6.tar.bz2]rox-lib2-2.0.6.tar.bz2[/url]
  (i unpacked this into: /usr/lib)
  MagickThumbnail-0.5.2.tar.bz2
  (i unpacked this into: /usr/local/apps)

I also ended up installing this lot (approx 20MB ) via the PPM
before i got thumbnails of .xcf files showing in ROX.
Although there were still a few that did not show as thumbnails for some reason.

• python-gobject_3.2.2-1~precise_all.deb 183K
  gir1.2-glib-2.0_1.32.0-1_i386.deb 575K
  libgirepository-1.0-1_1.32.0-1_i386.deb 271K
  python-gi_3.2.2-1~precise_i386.deb 821K
  python-gobject-2_2.28.6-10ubuntu1_i386.deb 853K
  
  python-gtk2_2.24.0-3_i386.deb 2956K
  python-cairo_1.8.8-1ubuntu3_i386.deb 193K
  
  zeroinstall-injector_1.6-1ubuntu1_all.deb 1245K
  adduser_3.113ubuntu2_all.deb 568K
  debconf_1.5.42ubuntu1_all.deb 609K
  gnupg_1.4.11-3ubuntu2.2_i386.deb 1924K
  gpgv_1.4.11-3ubuntu2.2_i386.deb 434K
  libpam-modules_1.1.3-7ubuntu2_i386.deb 727K
  passwd_4.1.4.2+svn3283-3ubuntu5.1_i386.deb 2009K
  
  imagemagick_6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.2_i386.deb 200K
  imagemagick-common_6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.2_all.deb 271K
  liblqr-1-0_0.4.1-1.1_i386.deb 109K
  libmagickcore4_6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.2_i386.deb 5486K
  libmagickwand4_6.6.9.7-5ubuntu3.2_i386.deb 1213K

That's a lot of crap just to be able to have thumbnails.

Hope this helps
CatDude
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[Semme]

Ah.. Good to have another man step into the arena for a change.

[Argolance]

Hello "mate"!

Curiosity got the better of me

Your kind green blinking eyes always see far and clear...

I also ended up installing this lot (approx 20MB)

I am going to test this and try to make (if possible!) a global pet package for those who are interesting in: obviously, I cannot integrate 20 additional MB to my iso just to be able to have thumbnails. It is nevertheless very convenient when working on pictures...
EDIT: I presume VideoThumbnails should work properly too?
Thank you to both of you!

Cordialement.

[Argolance]

Bonjour,
Catdude found the solution (only one 30K file is required) .

Here is what you need to do:

Copy the file from the attached tarball to: /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders
so that you have this: /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xcf.so
Now open a terminal and run this command:

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gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders	

That's all that needs to be done.


Restart the Xserver, then go to a directory which contains some GIMP (.xcf) files.

You should now see thumbnails of the .xcf files

Thank you so much!

Cordialement.

[CatDude]

Hi

I believe that the tarball Argolance has attached above
is the one i compiled for him in tooppy_1-0_precise-5.4.3.iso

If anyone wants to compile it for a different Puppy version
you can grab the sources here: http://gitorious.org/xcf-pixbuf-loader/mainline/archive-tarball/master

Note, that the command was specific to Precise also,
you may need to run a different command in another version of Puppy.

CatDude
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[don570]

Another suggestion...

Run 32 bit windows version of IrfanView in wine emulation
http://download.cnet.com/IrfanView/?par ... tag=button

If I remember right it shows the thumbnails of various paint programs.
I'll check tonite if it shows GIMP thumbnails.
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I'll check if this compiled version of xcf-pixbuf-loader works...
https://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/linux/ ... x86_64.rpm
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I'll try to compile ....
https://github.com/StephaneDelcroix/xcf ... master.zip

[don570]

I checked on fatdog64 and Rox filer will show the thumbnails of gimp format (ORA)
and it doesn't use xcf-pixbuf-loader
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