[Wine] link Explorer Shell extensions to Gnome thumbnailer

[Martin Gregorie]

On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 09:45 -0500, Fred2 wrote:
> This has nothing to do with Gnome and nothing with Nautilus.
> 
> It's Wine's aim/responsibility to make Windows functionality
> accessible on other platforms. 
> 
The OP was asking about an extension thumbnailer for *Windows Explorer*,
not a proprietary application. The OP actually wrote 'Explorer' and from
context he obviously meant Windows Explorer, not Internet Explorer or
some other proprietary program. 

Wine's purpose is to allow proprietary Windows applications to be run as
Linux applications, so extending it to support windows utilities such as
Windows Explorer is outside its remit, even if it was possible, when the
exact native equivalent, in this case Nautilus, is available.

> If proprietary applications provide a shell extension thumbnailer for
> their own binary file format (not bmp, don't be ridiculous)
>
Why not? Its still a reasonably common Windows file format that nothing
much except GIMP supports natively under Linux.

But you entirely missed my point, which was that, as Nautilus is what
the OP will be using to find files and it is easily extensible to handle
any additional file type, so it is reasonable to expect it to provide an
extensible mechanism for dealing with thumbnails.

However, at present only the thumbnail display size appears to be
configurable. So, if the OP feels strongly about it, the way forward is
to raise a bugzilla request against Nautilus for extensible thumbnail
generation and display.


Martin