Hello! I've been using deskbar-applet since some weeks/months, at first using it with the trackerd handler, but later with many useful handlers too (gajim, calculator and many of the main handlers). Some day I wanted to see thumbnails when searching movies. I modified deskbar so now it uses gnome thumbnails when available (see attached patch). (If I wrote this email is mainly because I've seen http://live.gnome.org/DeskbarApplet/Design ) I think this is good, but tracker has thumbnails support, so I think that it should be possible for handlers to add thumbnails to files. Another thing is the size of thumbnails. Currently thumbnails (or icons) are not scaled, I think it's a little problematic, for example handlers don't have the size allowed for the thumbnail. The last one is handlers loading, as it's written in the above webpage, I think that it's bad to have synchronized loading too. The main reason being loading time. I think it'd be nice to have a small list in the bottom of the replies, with handlers status : handler is loading, handler loading failed... I think that python is a good language, I don't want to do a C++ or D version of deskbar-applet, but I think that some points may be improved. Anyway, deskbar-applet is still a good tool, thank you, devs! -- Damien Thebault Key C15AB8AF Fingerprint 8FB9 8576 7033 4B45 3DF5 88E8 5471 1A44 C15A B8AF
--- /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/deskbar/Utils.py 2007-07-05 22:41:40.000000000 +0200 +++ ./usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/deskbar/Utils.py 2007-07-05 22:53:27.717838510 +0200 @@ -55,6 +55,29 @@ return [dir for dir in dirs.split(":") if dir.strip() != "" and exists(dir)] def load_icon_for_file(f): + # get (gnomevfs) uri of the file and get the path of the thumbnail + uri = gnomevfs.get_uri_from_local_path(os.path.abspath(f)) + thumb_path = gnome.ui.thumbnail_path_for_uri(uri, 'normal') + # if the user browsed the folder with nautilus, the thumbnail was created + # if not, we load an icon for the file, but we may try to do a thumbnail + # too + if os.path.exists(thumb_path): + # size : should be the height of file name + comments + # currently, deskbar doesn't resize thumbnails + size = deskbar.ICON_HEIGHT*2 + pix = gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_file(thumb_path) + # if the thumbnail is too big, we have to scale it + if pix.get_height() > size: + height = size + width = int(1.0*height*pix.get_width()/pix.get_height()) + return pix.scale_simple(width, height, gtk.gdk.INTERP_BILINEAR) + else: + return pix + else: + return load_std_icon_for_file(f) + + +def load_std_icon_for_file(f): icon_name, flags = gnome.ui.icon_lookup(ICON_THEME, factory, f, "", gnome.ui.ICON_LOOKUP_FLAGS_SHOW_SMALL_IMAGES_AS_THEMSELVES)
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