Gloobus, a QuickLook for linux

[kahlil88]

Awesome! Let's hope you don't get sued for patent infringement. I sure hate software patents.

[ryanhaigh]

Im VERY happy to report that gloobus 0.024 works perfectly on Gutsy with only a very minor modification to the installation process. For gutsy the libMagick++10 package is not available with the closest available version being libmagick++9c2a so you need to change the dependancy installation from this

sudo apt-get install libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl1.2debian libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsdl-image1.2 libmagick++10 libmagic1 libtag1c2a libavcodec1d libavformat1d libswscale1d libsdl-gfx1.2-4

To this

sudo apt-get install libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl1.2debian libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsdl-image1.2 libmagick++9c2a libmagic1 libtag1c2a libavcodec1d libavformat1d libswscale1d libsdl-gfx1.2-4

Once those packages are finished installing create a symbolic link to the .9 library from the .10 file that gloobus/preview look for

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libMagick++.so.9 /usr/lib/libMagick++.so.10

Proceed with the rest of the installation as normal and you have working (much better than in a VM) gloobus and preview.

[Prefix100]

This is so awesome.

It would be nicer if it was integrated though.

Great Job!

[badchoice]

Thanks for you report! as soon as I get home I'll include the modifications on the installation for gutsy!!

I'v marked as solved the other thread so now this is the good one!

Thank you so much!

[ryanhaigh]

Just tried using the app with my music collection and its great! I use list view in nautilus and so the audio preview (by holding the mouse over the icon) isn't available to me but this makes it a lot easier to find the track I am looking for when I don't know the name of the track. A couple of ideas occurred to me whilst using this feature:

• Up/Down keys scroll through documents in preview can these keys be used to skip ahead in songs/movies?
  
• Most of my music doesn't have embedded cover art (half of it isn't even tagged well), I thought rather than use a static and identical icon for all tracks you might be able to create/read thumbnails created by this application: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4477668

[badchoice]

Coses,
Its a good idea that left-right keys loads next file in preview (for photos
For the files without cover i use the cover.jpg file that is in the same folder, so this way you can have a folder with all albums each one with its cover.

By the way, I don't think that add a extern software preview funcion is the best way cause there are users that don't have or don't want it... but if its a very requested feature I can try to add it.

Thank for you comment and idea.

[cozmicharlie]

I can't seem to get this working. I have the entry for coverflow and preview when I right click. However, nothing happens when I select them. I tried running gloobus in terminal ($ sudo gloobus) and I get an error that reads

"gloobus: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_image-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

The . symbolic link /usr/liblibsdl_image-1.2.so and the shared library /usr/lib/libSDL_image-1.2.so.0.1.5 are installed. For some reason Gloobus is not recognizing it - probably something to do with permissions but I beleive I changed them as recommended in the thread so I am at a loss.

Thanks for the help.

[adamogardner]

cosmikcharlie. how do you do?....

[ryanhaigh]

It seems as though the files you have installed and the file gloobus is looking for are different, note the end of the filenames:

"gloobus: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_image-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

The . symbolic link /usr/liblibsdl_image-1.2.so and the shared library /usr/lib/libSDL_image-1.2.so.0.1.5 are installed.

According to ubuntu package search the package you need to install is apt://libsdl-image1.2

[cozmicharlie]

It seems as though the files you have installed and the file gloobus is looking for are different, note the end of the filenames:



According to ubuntu package search the package you need to install is apt://libsdl-image1.2

When I click on the link you provided (apt://libsdl-image1.2"]apt://libsdl-image1.2) - it says "package already installed".

When I check the files (http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/amd...ge1.2/filelist) - this is what they list. These are the same as what I have isntalled on my system.
/usr/lib/libSDL_image-1.2.so.0
/usr/lib/libSDL_image-1.2.so.0.1.5
/usr/share/doc/libsdl-image1.2/README
/usr/share/doc/libsdl-image1.2/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libsdl-image1.2/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/libsdl-image1.2/copyright

The version I installed from Synaptic is listed as 1.2.6-3 hardy.

Not sure what else I can do. Looks like the right version is installed.

I appreciate your help.