.dds preview in thunar is useful for graphists.
When we must work on lots of .dds files it's hard to find the right one.

Comment 2 Skunnyk 2017-12-30 11:33:59 CET

Reassigning to tumbler.
If you have tips on how to handle .dds file, you're welcome.

Comment 3 ToZ 2017-12-30 14:18:27 CET

You can use the new desktop thumbnailer plugin (https://git.xfce.org/xfce/tumbler/commit/?id=95311dbb45d07d8029e27bb374aeefa60e17b339) to create thumbnails for dds files. Requires tumbler 0.2.0

Create /usr/share/thumbnailers/dds.thumbnailer with the following content:

[Thumbnailer Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=X-Thumbnailer
Name=dds Thumbnailer
MimeType=image/x-dds;
Exec=/usr/bin/convert -thumbnail %s %i %o

...and make sure you have an image/x-dds mimetype configured in your system:

~/.local/share/mime/packages/dds.xml (or globally at /usr/share/mime/packages):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">
    <mime-type type="image/x-dds">
        <comment>dds file</comment>
        <icon name="image"/>
        <glob-deleteall/>
        <glob pattern="*.dds"/>
    </mime-type>
</mime-info>

...then run "update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime"

Comment 4 Skunnyk 2018-01-02 18:34:15 CET

Thank you ToZ. We should update https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/tumbler for tumbler 0.2.0 with this tip… :)

Comment 5 ToZ 2018-01-04 03:36:24 CET

Done. Documentation updated.

Comment 6 Ali Abdallah 2020-05-17 20:08:22 CEST

As suggested by ToZ, you can use the desktop thumbnailer for dds files.