python and gnome thumbnail factory: how?

[| MM |]

In python am i able to utilise gnome's thumbnail factory?

I want to, like nautilus, use the .thumbnails cache and when needed generate a thumbnail.

I cannot find much info on this, so any advice or links to examples would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Matthew

[Quikee]

In python am i able to utilise gnome's thumbnail factory?

I want to, like nautilus, use the .thumbnails cache and when needed generate a thumbnail.

I cannot find much info on this, so any advice or links to examples would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Matthew

Look at ThumbnailFactory documentation in gnome.ui. Or inspect gnome.ui in python/ipython ;)

Simple example:


import gnome.ui
import gnomevfs

path = "somePicture.png"

uri = gnomevfs.get_uri_from_local_path(path)
mime = gnomevfs.get_mime_type(uri)

thumbFactory = gnome.ui.ThumbnailFactory(gnome.ui.THUMBNAIL_SIZE_ LARGE)
if thumbFactory.can_thumbnail(uri ,mime, 0):
thumbnail = thumbFactory.generate_thumbnail(uri, mime)
if thumbnail != None:
thumbFactory.save_thumbnail(thumbnail, uri, 0)

However this may change in the future because because of GVFS/GIO.

[| MM |]

Thanks mate.