Difference between revisions of "User:Arielch/KDE Thumbnail plugin"
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While OpenOffice.org has internal support in the Windows desktop integration for the system file browser, providing thumb previews of OpenOffice.org files (see [http://svn.services.openoffice.org/opengrok/xref/Current%20(trunk)/shell/source/win32/shlxthandler/thumbviewer/ source code]), such a feature is completely missing in its KDE integration. | While OpenOffice.org has internal support in the Windows desktop integration for the system file browser, providing thumb previews of OpenOffice.org files (see [http://svn.services.openoffice.org/opengrok/xref/Current%20(trunk)/shell/source/win32/shlxthandler/thumbviewer/ source code]), such a feature is completely missing in its KDE integration. | ||
| − | The idea here is to develop a plug-in for KDE file managers (Dolphin and Konqueror) to preview OpenOffice.org files (Open Document Format) as thumbnails. Although this could be integrated into OpenOffice.org source code, I find it better to distribute the plug-in as a KDE extension, because it is developed using only the KDE API, and so it does not OpenOffice.org to be installed for it to work. | + | The idea here is to develop a plug-in for KDE file managers (Dolphin and Konqueror) to preview OpenOffice.org files (Open Document Format) as thumbnails. Although this could be integrated into OpenOffice.org source code, I find it better to distribute the plug-in as a KDE extension, because it is developed using only the KDE API, and so it does not need OpenOffice.org to be installed for it to work. |
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| + | * the plug-in only works for Open Document Format files (the default file format since OpenOffice.org 2), not the old binary file format | ||
Revision as of 15:26, 24 August 2009
While OpenOffice.org has internal support in the Windows desktop integration for the system file browser, providing thumb previews of OpenOffice.org files (see source code), such a feature is completely missing in its KDE integration.
The idea here is to develop a plug-in for KDE file managers (Dolphin and Konqueror) to preview OpenOffice.org files (Open Document Format) as thumbnails. Although this could be integrated into OpenOffice.org source code, I find it better to distribute the plug-in as a KDE extension, because it is developed using only the KDE API, and so it does not need OpenOffice.org to be installed for it to work.
Features
- the plug-in only works for Open Document Format files (the default file format since OpenOffice.org 2), not the old binary file format
