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dtw

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Video & better image thumbnails in rox - python hacker n

As some of you may know the new rox has the abilty to display video thumbnails!

This is via an extention called VideoThumbnails.  Now, because the people who develop rox are completely obsessed with Zero Install the ideal way to install it is via an app called zeroinstall-injector.

To cut a long story short you can find PKGBUILDs and pkgs for the new rox-lib release, zeroinstall-injector and an attempt at videothumbnail in my [dibble] repo.  Basically I can get video thumbnail to work as root fine.  It's getting it to work with other users that is the problem!

The zeroinstall injector works fine so you could try that to install and see what it does.

Oh - I'll add an AUR style tarball to my ftp server of the rox build files too

http://dtw.jiwe.org/share/downloads/rox.tar.gz

.:UPDATE:.

I got videothumbnail to work fine - the pkg should now be easy to install and use.  Not worth the effort it took me but a nice easy add-on for everyone else

I have now added a MagickThumbnail plugin which has enhanced thumb support for pdfs, fonts and numerous image types.  Alas as you have to set a specific image size for the thumbnail you get the old problem of 16x16 icons being displayed at 128x128 - my advice is to let regular rox handle common icon file-types like png and xpm

oh and turn the frame option off

.:further update:.

magickthumb is a bit crap with it's choose a size - can someone hack the python script to change the "choosen size" in the options to the maximum size and other wise display at actual size?

neri

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Re: Video & better image thumbnails in rox - python hacker n

dibble,

I'm in progress on doing a package for rox, even if it is the developer
release. But Arch always was on a developer elease on rox.
Two issues so far:
1. extremely busy real life
2. a problem on updateing the mount/unmount state of directories.

-neri

dtw

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Re: Video & better image thumbnails in rox - python hacker n

um...rox 2.3 works perfectly here, neri.  what's the problem there?

neri

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Re: Video & better image thumbnails in rox - python hacker n

um...rox 2.3 works perfectly here, neri.  what's the problem there?

I would call it an annoyance, if you unmount an nfs, which is fstab defined,
the state of the dir stays as mounted. The workaround is as to leave the
directory backwards, re-enter it and then the mountpoint is unmounted also
as status. This is only important if you use rox as mount/unmount
application, which is handy for me.

-neri
PS. bigger problem is that I have really not much time atm....

dtw

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Re: Video & better image thumbnails in rox - python hacker n

nfs - is that network file share?  I don't have any of those but other mounts seem to work perfectly