Appimagekit: Write GNOME thumbnailer

[probonopd]

Using
https://github.com/hadess/gnome-thumbnailer-skeleton
and
libarchive

[probonopd]

Pull requests welcome

[drequivalent]

Any progress on this?

[TheAssassin]

@drequivalent nope. We have an XDG thumbnailer, so it should work, but that is only run when launching an AppImage, or when using tools like AppImageLauncher. There's a dedicated thumbnailer in KDE, that will be shipped once libappimage is ready in distributions. But for GNOME, there's no official solution yet.

[azubieta]

Done, please see https://github.com/azubieta/appimage-gnome-thumbnailer
Deb packages are available at the releases tab.

[probonopd]

Wow! 👍 💯
Want to make this an official AppImage project in the AppImage organization?

[drequivalent]

Cool. Any way to remove the thumbnail border though?

[TheAssassin]

Can anyone please explain why this is necessary? I thought we have this XDG thumbnailing stuff that is supposed to work on GNOME.

[azubieta]

@TheAssassin To provide a native thumbnailer for GNome users that allows thumbnails being shown before the AppImage were executed.

@drequivalent will take a look at it.

[azubieta]

@drequivalent the thumbnails generated have no frame around it's dolphin the one who place them. Also I wasn't able to find were to turn it of.

[azubieta]

I'll close the issue as resolved. Fell free to re-open it if something else comes up.

[probonopd]

Works great, even in XFCE! :-) Thank you so much @azubieta. Do you think you could make a RPM as well? (E.g., using cpack -V -G RPM)

[azubieta]

Sure, opening an issue.

[TheAssassin]

Perhaps we can integrate this project into the AppImageLauncher tool family? At least it'd be nice if we could ship it with it.

[azubieta]

AppImageLauncher is desktop environment agnostic this tool is GNOME focused. I don't think it would be a good idea. But I guess we can create (if it doesn't exists) an entry in the docs with tips to enhance desktop integration of AppImages.

[probonopd]

In the ideal world (e.g., if appimaged/AppImageLauncher/thumbnailer/AppImageUpdate/Firejail etc. would enter Debian proper) there would be something like an appimage-desktop metapackage that would set everything up, öossibly including the files mentioned in the excludelist).

But I've realized that I don't have enough time to attempt anything at distro packaging anytime soon again ;-)