Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP 2.9 XCF files and digiKam, gnome file browsers, etc

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 01/04/2016 04:39 PM, Michael Natterer wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 14:13 -0500, Elle Stone wrote:
> > On 01/03/2016 06:41 PM, Michael Natterer wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2016-01-03 at 17:53 -0500, Elle Stone wrote:
> > > > Does anyone know of *any* image viewer that can display a
> > > > thumbnail
> > > > for
> > > > GIMP 2.9 XCF files?
> > >
> > > I don't know, but they should at least show the thumbnails
> > > created by GIMP. I hope that works across apps, it does work
> > > in nautilus.
> > >
> > > --Mitch
> >
> > By "thumbnails" do you mean thumbnails created by Nautilus? or
> > thumbnails created by GIMP and put in a hidden folder in the user's
> > home
> > folder (assuming the user has chosen in Preferences/System Resources
> > to
> > actually save Image Thumbnails)?
>
> I meant thumbnails created by GIMP, which uses the same standard
> folders as nautilus, so nautilus should show them.

I just asked GIMP to create some new thumbnails of GIMP XCF files. But I 
haven't been able to locate them using the Dolphin file browser.

Where are the GIMP thumbnails stored? And what's the file extension? As 
far as I can tell, GIMP 2.9/2.10 seems to "forget" about whatever 
thumbnails it creates just as soon as GIMP is closed. Is there a setting 
in Preferences that needs to be (re)set? Is it the Document History" option?

I don't know what folders Nautilus uses and I'm not willing to install 
Nautilus to find out. But if GIMP creates thumbnails (pngs?) and puts 
them in a specific folder, I can ask digiKam to monitor that folder. Or 
rather maybe I can copy the thumbnails over to the folders where I keep 
the XCF files.

Best,
Elle