A feature from Windows Explorer which I really miss, is that it shows thumbnails for folders. Specifically, if the folder contains a file called Folder.jpg, its thumbnail is shown on top of a folder graphic, otherwise up to four thumbnails from files in the folder are shown (with halfed width/height) on the same graphic. Suggested implementation: - Look among Folder.* files in a folder to see if any has a thumbnail. If so, use that for the folder (with some way to distinguish it from a file; a background color or graphic or something). - Otherwise, if any of the Folder.* files is thumbnailable, generate a thumbnail and use that. - Otherwise, repeat the process with all the other files in the folder.
Created attachment 2789 Let thunar generate thumbnails for everything
Yep, we can do something like this now.
Hello, I can confirm Thunar is really lacking this feature. Actually this is the only reason I still use things like banshee to browse my music library (ability to view the album covers). Thunar could use something like looking for a folder.jpg file inside the directory, and the showing the thumbnail over the directory icon. It could be implemented as a plugin/option if this affects performance on older machines. Hope to see this feature in future releases. Thanks to you all
(In reply to comment #1) > Created attachment 2789 > Let thunar generate thumbnails for everything It's not as easy. We'd also have to react on events where a folder.jpg (or whatever we'd use as the thumbnail image) is created/modified/deleted in a folder. I've pushed two branches for thunar and tumbler (both called jannis/folder-thumbnails) which implements a simple version (no file monitoring) idea. This needs more thinking though.
Moving this to Thunar 1.2.0.
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I'm quite interested in this functionality as well. I think that support for thumbnails on folders and automatic intelligent creation of folder thumbnails are two separate features: the thumbnail may very well have been generated by an external program (which is what I'm doing with my music manager, beets). The small commit on jannis/folder-thumbnails (which is not rebasable on master but is easy to manually re-apply) improves the situation: upon opening a folder the icon is shown, however it disappears on the first action (clicking, pressing a key, ...).
I'm very interested as well. Having folder thumbnails helps quickly looking for files inside subfolders, and allows users to set a custom thumbnail (by using a common filename such as folder.{jpg,png}, cover.{jpg,png}, front*.{jpg,png}, .mediaart/*.{jpg,png} and .mediaartlocal/*.{jpg,png} ) I did not try the patch in jannis/folder-thumbnails What I would expect of this thumbnailer: * applies to inode/directory mimetypes * respects local only/remote thumbnailing pref * looks for a thumbnail image in the directory (filenames above) * resizes and overlays it with the directory icon for the current theme * cache it? Should this be moved to tumbler?
Moving to tumbler. Feel free to provide patches implementing everything still missing.
Fixed in Bug #14576, released in thunar 1.8.2 Here is a short manual on how to add a folder thumbnailer: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/tumbler#customized_thumbnailer_for_folders *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 14576 ***