# libpreview

**Repository Path**: mirrors_chromium_gitlab_gnome/libpreview

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: libpreview
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: LGPL-2.1
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-08-09
- **Last Updated**: 2025-11-10

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## README

libpreview -- A Thumbnailing Library
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About
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libpreview is an implementation of the Thumbnail Managing Standard (TMS) for
the GNOME development platform. The purpose of the TMS is to provide a standard
way for creating, saving and handling thumbnails across different applications,
desktop environments and operating systems. Multiple parties have been involved
in the design process and are planning to support the TMS: GIMP, ROX Desktop,
KDE and GNOME. The ROX desktop is the first one which implemented it completely.

The provided source code for this library is work in progress and isn't used in
any real-world program yet. But it is at least planned to use it within the
image viewing program Eye Of Gnome. Beyond this, it is suited for every program
which uses the GNOME 2.0 development platform.


Status
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The most important lacking feature within the library is an asynchronous
API. Apart from this there need some work to be done to support all the features
of the latest TMS version 0.5.


Requirements
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 o glib 2.0 (aka 1.3.x)
 o gtk+ 2.0 (aka 1.3.x), including gdk-pixbuf
 o gnome-vfs 2.0 (aka 1.9.x)


Further information:
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 o Thumbnail Managing Standard:  http://www.triq.net/~pearl/thumb-spec.php
 o Discussions: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xdg-list


    Jens Finke <jens@gnome.org>, February 2002