Since 2 days i struggling like in fedora 39 , with image preview with Nautilus and with file window picking . Was able to see all my previews 2 days ago , was able to see previews in image picking ( choosing an image to use in vivaldi browser for examples) and was also able to clik and move image on vivaldi to use it with comfyui , i can’t do that anymore getting typeerror: failed to fetch , a lot of images are now showing icons instead of images . didn’t change anything in my settings
just did updates as usual
Added gnome
I use ffmpegthunailer that will solve the problems.
thanks, but tell me if i’m wrong this is a kde app so will it download a bunch of other packages ?, and i’m asking myself why was it working perfectly before ? updates aren’t they supposed to increase effectiveness instead of decreasing it
I use Gnome and didn’t have the thumbnailer by default, so I had to install the ffmpegthumbnailer so it can do the thunmbails ( including .avif, .webp, svg ).
That i am aware it is not a KDE app, is just produces the thumbnails for me in Files Gnome.
It could be an issue with the cache, there is a config file you can remove to allow it to rebuild the thumbnails.
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last question , my main pb come with .jpg image as ffmpeg thumbnailer is for previwing video , will it help for my pb ?
ffmpegthumnailer is for everything, as I stated above. ( I have a large collections of file types including .avif, .webp, .png, .svg, .jpeg )
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ok thanks
luc@fedora40:~$ sudo dnf install ffmpegthumbnailer
[sudo] password for luc:
Last metadata expiration check: 3:32:30 ago on Tue 16 Jul 2024 01:11:18 PM CEST.
No match for argument: ffmpegthumbnailer
Error: Unable to find a match: ffmpegthumbnailer
dnf search ffmpegthumbnailer
Last metadata expiration check: 17:31:32 ago on Mon 15 Jul 2024 05:19:06 PM EDT.
========================================================================== Name Exactly Matched: ffmpegthumbnailer ===========================================================================
ffmpegthumbnailer.x86_64 : Lightweight video thumbnailer that can be used by file managers
luc@fedora40:~$ dnf search ffmpegthumbnailer
Last metadata expiration check: 14 days, 15:46:00 ago on Tue 02 Jul 2024 01:17:58 AM CEST.
====================== Summary Matched: ffmpegthumbnailer ======================
ffmpegthumbs.i686 : KDE ffmpegthumbnailer service
ffmpegthumbs.x86_64 : KDE ffmpegthumbnailer service
shouldn’t we get the same result at the same search ?
We should, not sure why you have that? Although I did get that as well, I just did not post it.
dnf search ffmpegthumbnailer
Last metadata expiration check: 17:31:32 ago on Mon 15 Jul 2024 05:19:06 PM EDT.
========================================================================== Name Exactly Matched: ffmpegthumbnailer ===========================================================================
ffmpegthumbnailer.x86_64 : Lightweight video thumbnailer that can be used by file managers
========================================================================= Name & Summary Matched: ffmpegthumbnailer ==========================================================================
ffmpegthumbnailer-devel.x86_64 : Headers and libraries for building apps that use ffmpegthumbnailer
kffmpegthumbnailer.x86_64 : A video thumbnailer for kde based on ffmpegthumbnailer
============================================================================= Summary Matched: ffmpegthumbnailer =============================================================================
ffmpegthumbs.i686 : KDE ffmpegthumbnailer service
ffmpegthumbs.x86_64 : KDE ffmpegthumbnailer service
sorry as i’m not an advanced user , but it seems that i can only install this KDE ffmpegthumbs , right ? And are you on fedora 40 yourself ?
That is strange though, let me see where it comes from.
dnf info ffmpegthumbnailer
Last metadata expiration check: 0:12:15 ago on Tue 16 Jul 2024 10:59:38 AM EDT.
Installed Packages
Name : ffmpegthumbnailer
Version : 2.2.3
Release : 0.7.20240104git1b5a779.fc40
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 289 k
Source : ffmpegthumbnailer-2.2.3-0.7.20240104git1b5a779.fc40.src.rpm
Repository : @System
From repo : rpmfusion-free
Summary : Lightweight video thumbnailer that can be used by file managers
URL : https://github.com/dirkvdb/ffmpegthumbnailer
License : GPLv2+
Description : This video thumbnailer can be used to create thumbnails for your video files.
Ah ok, it comes from RPMFusion-free. . .
Hmm, maybe there is another tool or something else we can do.
Normally, i’m supposed to get package from rpm fusion ???
Yeah, that particular package is in RPMFusion. Like I said earlier, if you don’t want to do that, maybe we can try something else.
what should i do to get it thru rpm fusion ?
i found it , no worries, and thanks a lot for your help
Since you said it was working before, you could try:
Delete the thumnails cache and log out or restart
~/.cache/thumbnails/
GNOME should support file previews without rpmfusion? This is a bug but I found your description pretty confusing.
There is sushi, the file previewer for Nautilus, I dont know if it embeds itself in the app or is just used to preview things (which would make less sense)