Re: GWorkspace.app Feature Request-- Tabbed Shelf

[Jeff Teunissen]

Enrico Sersale wrote:

[snip]

> I've just written a service "thumbnailer" that creates thumbnails.
> Tomorrow it will be done.
> I'm writing now to ask if I must implement in GWorkspace a method that
> wraps NSWorkspace's -iconForFile: to return a thumbnail if it exists or
> if we want to put this in NSWorkspace.

In my opinion, this should be provided inside GWorkspace. NSWorkspace
should check with the workspace application (if one is running) for a
file's icon, falling back to the standard behavior if the workspace
application returns nil or if there is no workspace application.

In addition, this should be switchable within GWorkspace -- I don't want
to see a thumbnail for a file, I want to see an icon to tell me whether or
not an application can open it...which is, some may recall, the purpose of
icons in the first place. :)

Also, don't forget that the thumbnail "standard" is not merely for images.
This method allows a workspace application to implement custom behavior
for any type, without putting it into GNUstep.

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