Thumbnailers are missing in gconf

Bug #864615 reported by Patrick Ulbrich
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gconf (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

In Oneiric thumbnailers are missing in gconf, i.e. all gtk2 apps (e.g. Basenji) that generate thumbnails of media (images, videos...) won't work.

Importing the attached gconf XML from natty ("gconftool-2 --load thumbnailers.xml") will fix the problem.

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Patrick Ulbrich (pulb) wrote :
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Patrick Ulbrich (pulb) wrote :

This bug is really easy to fix, I'd be very happy if the fix will make it into oneiric as it is pretty critical for me.
For more information see http://developer.gnome.org/integration-guide/3.2/thumbnailer.html.en

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Patrick Ulbrich (pulb) wrote :
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Patrick Ulbrich (pulb) wrote :

Images don't seem to be affected, but all other media types.

Here is a snippet (by jtailor) to reproduce the problem:

import gnome.ui
import gnomevfs

path = "test.avi"

uri = gnomevfs.get_uri_from_local_path(path)
mime = gnomevfs.get_mime_type(uri)

thumbFactory = gnome.ui.ThumbnailFactory(gnome.ui.THUMBNAIL_SIZE_LARGE)
if thumbFactory.can_thumbnail(uri ,mime, 0):
    thumbnail = thumbFactory.generate_thumbnail(uri, mime)
    if thumbnail != None:
        thumbFactory.save_thumbnail(thumbnail, uri, 0)

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Patrick Ulbrich (pulb) wrote :

I wrote a little bash script that imports thumbnailers from /usr/share/thumbnailers into gconf in GNOME 3 (see attachment).

Logan Rosen (logan)
affects: gconf2 (Ubuntu) → gconf (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gconf (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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MestreLion (mestrelion) wrote :

Shouldn't this import be the other way around? AFAIK, Gnome 3 uses /usr/share/thumbnailers/*.thumbnailer files to implement external handlers, NOT gsettings. The gconf2 was the Gnome 2 (ie, Natty and before) way of registering external thumbnailers.

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Patrick Ulbrich (pulb) wrote : Re: [Bug 864615] Re: Thumbnailers are missing in gconf

No, this bugreport is about missing thumbnails in gtk2 apps.

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