Thunar does not create or display font thumbnails

[Joe Clifford]

Binary package hint: thunar-data

:~$lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

:~$ apt-cache policy thunar-data
thunar-data:
  Installed: 0.9.3-0ubuntu1~intrepid1
  Candidate: 0.9.3-0ubuntu1~intrepid1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.3-0ubuntu1~intrepid1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-backports/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.9.0-10ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages

Expected behaviour: Font thumbnails to be created in Thunar file manager so that you can, at a glance, see what the font is like.

What happened: No font thumbnails only generic font icon instead.

Thunar's font thumbnailer does not work. Browsing my Truetype fonts shows only the generic font icon. The problem lies with the following file:

/usr/share/thumbnailers/thunar-vfs-font-thumbnailer-1.desktop

File contents:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=X-XFCE-Thumbnailer
Name=Thunar Font Thumbnailer
Comment=Creates thumbnails for font files
TryExec=/usr/lib/thunar/thunar-vfs-font-thumbnailer-1
Exec=/usr/lib/thunar/thunar-vfs-font-thumbnailer-1 -i %i -o %o -s %s
MimeType=application/x-font-otf;application/x-font-pcf;application/x-font-ttf;application/x-font-type1;

# vi:set encoding=UTF-8:

Changing the file to contain the following fixes the problem:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=X-Thumbnailer
Name=Thunar Font Thumbnailer
Comment=Creates thumbnails for font files
TryExec=/usr/lib/thunar/thunar-vfs-font-thumbnailer-1
MimeType=application/x-font-otf;application/x-font-pcf;application/x-font-ttf;application/x-font-type1;
X-Thumbnailer-Exec=/usr/lib/thunar/thunar-vfs-font-thumbnailer-1 -i %i -o %o -s %s

# vi:set encoding=UTF-8:

I believe this bug is also in version 0.9.0-10ubuntu1 as well as the backports version.

[Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit)]

Hi,

Thanks for your bug report.

I can confirm the issue and the proposed fix.
Forwarded upstream.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package thunar - 0.9.99.1-0ubuntu1

---------------
thunar (0.9.99.1-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian pkg-xfce UNRELEASED (r2643), remaining Ubuntu changes:
    - debian/control:
      + use our Vcs-* fields.
      + build depends on gtk-doc-tools.
      + thunar-data: conflicts/replaces thunar-doc, libthunar-vfs-1-dev
        (<= 0.9.0-3ubuntu1).
    - debian/patches:
      + 06_fix-menu-icons.patch: correctly displays themed icons even if there's
        a dot in the middle of the filename (see Xfce #3614).
      + xubuntu-fix-desktop-files.patch: various fixes to desktop files:
        . make thunar and thunar-bulk-rename appear under Accessories not System
        . make destop-file-validate happy (remove 'Encoding' and 'Application;')
        . add 'OnlyShowIn="XFCE;"' to Thunar-folder-handler.desktop so that
          GNOME defaults to Nautilus and not Thunar.
  * Bugs fixed by this new release:
    - "Querying Thunar /proc directory causes hang" (LP: #162448)
    - "Thunar does not respond after second window is opened" (LP: #163587)
    - "Thunar does not show if drive is mounted" (LP: #181117)
    - "xfce desktop does not respect freedesktop desktop settings" (LP: #220318)
    - "thunar swaps behavior of forward / back (next / previous) buttons"
      (LP: #234217)
    - "Xubuntu 8.04 X64 Thunar randomly freezes - hidden files/tree view"
      (LP: #293839)
    - "Opening multiple instances of thunar causes system freeze" (LP: #317920)
  * debian/patches/02_fix-font-thumbnailer-desktop-file.patch: add missing keys
    in the font thumbnailer's desktop file (LP: #318290).

 -- Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:47:35 +0100