GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 536414
Nautilus does not generate thumbnails for svgz
Last modified: 2009-01-22 16:11:17 UTC
Please describe the problem: Nautilus does not generate thumbnails for svgz files. For svg files, everything is ok. Problem is, a lot of icon collections (eg. oxygen icons) comes as svgz files, and therefore there is no easy way to browse through them visually in nautilus. User must each file click individually and display it in image viewer. That is very inconvenient. Nautilus should generate thumbnails even for svgz files. Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? yes Other information:
gdk-pixbuf supports svg file, but does not support svgz file. Maybe it's a problem of gtk or gdk-pixbuf.
I am not skilled enough to understand conversation in bug #536530. Is this a distribution bug or something? Should I report it against Ubuntu? I have understand that svgz is just a generic gzip file, therefore the thumbnailer is not trying to display it. What about looking to the extension - if the MIME type is "gzip compressed" AND the extension is "svgz", then try to thumbnail it? That should reduce negative performance hit (it wouldn't try to render generic gzip content) and still be able to render svgz files.
I confirm that this bug is present on Ubuntu 8.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/257713
This bug isn't a duplicate of http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450209 ?
Agreed. This is more a distribution issue really and there's nothing we can do inside Nautilus. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 450209 ***