[referencer] No thumbnails

John Spray jcspray at icculus.org
Sat May 12 14:43:25 EDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 08:45 -0400, Derek Peterman wrote:
> On 5/10/07, Michael Banck <mbanck at debian.org> wrote:
>         Hi,
>         
>         On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:04:21PM -0400, Derek Peterman
>         wrote:
>         > My ebooks are currently sitting on a NAS partitioned to
>         FAT32 (mounted
>         > via NFS)... if this has anything to do with anything.
>         
>         Try to temporarily add a local .pdf and see whether that
>         yields a
>         thumbnail, I'm not sure what mechanism referencer uses, but at
>         least
>         nautilus does not thumbnail files on network shares, AFAIK, so
>         it might
>         be likely that this is the culprit. 

Referencer 1.0.3 refuses to thumbnail files which are not local.  I've
hopefully fixed this for the next release, by counting any file://
(which would include your NFS mounts) or smb:// files as fast enough for
thumbnailing.  This is in subversion now.

Regards,
John




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