Linux for Designers

As i wrote in my post about my new Dell Studio 17 and Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 i've lost the possibility to get thumbnails Photoshop PSD files in Nautilus.
But now i discovered how to get thumbnails of GIMP XCF files Just install the packages "xcftools" and "gnome-xcf-thumbnailer". It seems there is a bug in the package "gnome-scf-thumbnailer" because the dependency about the packages "xcftools" is missing.

After my talk "Website Requirements Today" at the TYPO3 Security Day here in Berlin is over its time for me to relax a little bit. Then i will start update/ finish a lot of my scripts (Nautilus Thumbnailer, gEdit Language Reference plugin) and my new one Supor Killor.
At area42 we started to complete a new version of the BS Exporter for Blender X3D/VRML. This version will add amazing new features and will support the new partcile engine of Blender 2.46 too.

When browsing through directories and searching for an image it would often be helpful getting an thumbnail of an image. But Nautilus the files manager of the Gnome Desktop didn't support many images formats like Photoshop's PSD, Silicon Graphics RGB or Gimp's XCF files.
I created a Thumbnailer Gimp Python Plugin (copy it into "~/.gimp-2.4/plug-ins" and make sure it is executable) that generates thumbnails for Nautilus using Gimp.
That's the first version (of something like this) which means:
* No automatic thumbnail generation, you have to call it via Nautilus Scripts or Nautilus Actions like:

gimp-console  -i -n -f -d -s -b '(python-fu-thumbnailer RUN-NONINTERACTIVE "/your/path/here")'

or for Nautilus Actions:

gimp-console -i -n -f -d -s -b '(python-fu-thumbnailer RUN-NONINTERACTIVE "%d")'

* Didn't running inside of Gimp (toolbox)
* "Browse Images..." in Gimps image window isn't implemented yet
* no visual feedback at the moment how much thumbnails are generated