GNOME Directory Thumbnailer

GNOME Directory Thumbnailer (gnome-directory-thumbnailer) is an open source command-line utility for the GNOME desktop environment, designed to as a tool to generate a thumbnail for a given directory.

GNOME Directory Thumbnailer is intended to be called by the thumbnailer code of the gnome-desktop package, but it can also be called manually via a Linux Terminal.

Usage:

Basic usage:
   gnome-directory-thumbnailer path/to/directory output-thumbnail.png

Specifying the maximum thumbnail dimensions:
   gnome-directory-thumbnailer dir out.png -s 200

The latter will allow the maximum width and height to be specified in pixels. This utility works only with the GNOME desktop environment.

What is new in this release:

• Initial release with basic heuristics for thumbnailing directories.

Requirements:

• GNOME
• GLib2
• gdk-pixbuf
• gio-2.0 ≥ 2.22.0