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Add tumbler and ffmpegthumbnailer to xfce4-desktop bundle #459

Open danboid opened 5 years ago

danboid commented 5 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

xfce/Thunar under Clear currently doesn't show thumbnails for video or image files because tumbler and its dependencies are missing. This is the main reason why I am currently unable to use Clear as my desktop OS as I personally regard this as a must-have feature. I realise this depends upon ffmpeg which is also not currently bundled but there are at least two other tickets already open requesting that, to which I have added my support and relevant comments.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like to see ffmpeg, tumbler and ffmpegthumbnailer added to the xfce4-desktop bundle so that image and video thumbnail previews will work when enabled.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I have tested every major FOSS GUI file manager available for Linux and UNIX and Thunar is the only one that supports generating thumbnails for video files stored on a samba share. There are no working alternatives at present under Linux. Nautilus/files, Dolphin, Caja, pcmanfm etc do not support video thumbnail previews on network drives.

ahkok commented 5 years ago

blocked by #429

danboid commented 5 years ago

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15148

ghost commented 5 years ago

This same problem on Gnome. I only get thumbnails when an open an image with Gimp.