[Gimp-developer] thumbnail generation for nautilus via gimp

[William Skaggs]

From: Eckhard M. Jger bart at neeneenee.de

> there is a thing that i don't understand, my script is opening the 
> file and so the thumbnail is generated by Gimp automaticly when 
> closing gimp. ...

Unless a file contains an internal thumbnail (as jpeg files sometimes
do), there is no way to generate a thumbnail for a file without
loading it.  So probably you're hoping for something that is
impossible.

  -- Bill