Difference between revisions of "User:Arielch/KDE Thumbnail plugin"
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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 | * the plug-in only works for Open Document Format files (the default file format since OpenOffice.org 2), not the old binary file format | ||
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| + | * the plug-in only creates a thumbnail when the OpenOffice.org document already has a thumbnail file (ODF files are zip files, the plug-in searches for the Thumbnails/thumbnail.png file inside it). This means that there is no thumbnail preview for OpenOffice.org Base files (or in case the ODF file has no Thumbnails/thumbnail.png, or the thumbnail.png is corrupted) | ||
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| + | * when the document is digitally signed, the plug-in reflects this fact by painting a signet on the upper right corner of the thumbnail. This is done slightly different from the way OpenOffice.org does it in its Windows integration: | ||
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| + | [[Image:dig_sign_winxp.png|none|thumb|500px|Preview of a digitally signed file on Windows file browser]] | ||
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| + | [[Image:doc_with_digital_sign.png|none|thumb|500px|Preview of a digitally signed files on KDE 4.3 Dolphin]] | ||
Revision as of 15:38, 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
- the plug-in only creates a thumbnail when the OpenOffice.org document already has a thumbnail file (ODF files are zip files, the plug-in searches for the Thumbnails/thumbnail.png file inside it). This means that there is no thumbnail preview for OpenOffice.org Base files (or in case the ODF file has no Thumbnails/thumbnail.png, or the thumbnail.png is corrupted)
- when the document is digitally signed, the plug-in reflects this fact by painting a signet on the upper right corner of the thumbnail. This is done slightly different from the way OpenOffice.org does it in its Windows integration:
