Re: Thumbnailing

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 10 Jul 2002, Michael Rothwell wrote:

> 
> Is it possible to extend the thumbnailing support in Nautilus? I want to
> write a font-viewer, and it seems like the easiest thing will be to add
> thumbnailing support for fonts, and a nautilus view that will showcase
> one font at a time.

It's surely possible if you're willing to hack some. I'm not sure how such 
a thumbnail would look though. Render "ABCabc"? What if those glyphs don't 
exist in the file? Also, won't the icon be rather hard to see and hit? 

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