Re: no preview thumbnails for various file types in 2.5.x

[Jens Finke <jens triq net>]

Jens Ansorg wrote:
> > At some point in the 2.5.x series (using 2.5.90 now) Nautilus lost the
> > ability to show thumbnails with actual file content for various file
> > types, i.e. SVG files, XCF Gimp files.
> >
> > See this screenshot: http://www.ja-web.de/tmp/missing-thumbnail.jpg
>
> Turned out that the lib for SVG files was not included in the file 
> /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
>
> The gentoo ebuild for librsvg should execute 
> gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders after an
> install but that probably failed for some reason
> After I issued the command manually Nautilus startet to render
> thumbnails for SVG files again :)

Thanks for looking further into this issue. I am kind of eased that its 
'just' a  distributor problem. ;)

> > Probably related issue (not on this screenshot): 
> > I have a ftp-mount to my web server - works great btw :) 
> > I have set up nautilus to show thumbnails for all files.
> > I open a folder on the ftp server that has several small image files
> > (png, jpg) Some of them get shown as thumbnail but most do not. 
>
> turns out that all PNGs that do not give a thumbnail also cannot be
> opened in eog. seems like webalizer at my isp generates broken images.

Are there any programs which can display this image? If not it's 
probably a broken PNG file. But in the other case its worth to file a 
bug report for gdk-pixbuf and attaching the file.

Regards,

   Jens