Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.4.2) OS: Linux New Blender 2.5 has now the ability to show thumbnails of the scene in file manager: http://durian.blender.org/development/system-benchmarks/ The developers say it follows FreeDesktop standards to generate thumbnails as you can read over there http://durian.blender.org/development/system-benchmarks/#comment-14695 and actually Nautilus in Gnome can properly show scene thumbnail as seen here http://durian.blender.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/scene_52b_files.png Dolphin instead doesn't seem able to show them, all you can see is default icon with no thumbnail at all. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Create a scene with Blender, save it and navigate with Dolphin to the folder of your saved scene, you can't see thumbnail but only default icon. Actual Results: You can't see thumbnail in dolphin. Expected Results: If Dolphin follow freedesktop standard it should show Blender thumbnail.
Thanks for the suggestion, but Dolphin is not responsible for creating the previews itself. Someone would need to write a blender-thumbnail-plugin for KDE.
Hi Peter, in my opinion it's blender that create the thumbnails, nautilus only shows them correctly as them were images, the thumbnails are incorporated yet in the .blend files by blender itself.
Hi, fyi, someone already created a Blender Preview plugin but I don't know if it is still working. More info here: https://github.com/kayosiii/kde-thumbnailer-blender and here: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=146380 If someone tests this and it's working, it can make it's way into KDE if you find a maintainer for it. Then contact dolphin-devel with the code and post it on the reviewboard.
I am the author of that thumbnailer. What is the best way to get in contact with the Dolphin devs. The IRC seems general to all of KDE and the mailing list doesn't look like it has any posts.
Danni, you can find Dolphin developers at the kfm-devel mailing list.
See also http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/?content=174485
Git commit 2da545defff9aad09d8a0ca87398d11ac16144c4 by Chinmoy Ranjan Pradhan. Committed on 15/03/2019 at 17:45. Pushed by chinmoyr into branch 'master'. Add blender thumbnailer Summary: This extracts thumbnail from .blend files. Before: Default icon. After: {F6685286} M +3 -0 CMakeLists.txt A +12 -0 blend/CMakeLists.txt A +146 -0 blend/blendercreator.cpp [License: LGPL] A +35 -0 blend/blendercreator.h [License: LGPL] A +7 -0 blend/blenderthumbnail.desktop https://commits.kde.org/kdegraphics-thumbnailers/2da545defff9aad09d8a0ca87398d11ac16144c4
Git commit 18c3a2ee6c84f3cecca591c64b4ae26f0cfbd3a8 by Chinmoy Ranjan Pradhan. Committed on 20/03/2019 at 14:39. Pushed by chinmoyr into branch 'Applications/19.04'. Add blender thumbnailer Summary: This extracts thumbnail from .blend files. Before: Default icon. After: {F6685286} M +3 -0 CMakeLists.txt A +12 -0 blend/CMakeLists.txt A +146 -0 blend/blendercreator.cpp [License: LGPL] A +35 -0 blend/blendercreator.h [License: LGPL] A +7 -0 blend/blenderthumbnail.desktop https://commits.kde.org/kdegraphics-thumbnailers/18c3a2ee6c84f3cecca591c64b4ae26f0cfbd3a8