[SOLVED] Thumbnail view of image files in Thunar and PCManFM

Hello all!
I have a question about the way Thunar and PCManFM handles thumbnails of image files. I understand that Thunar users can use the thunar-thumbnailers package to get previews of all sorts of different file formats. But on the thumbnailers page it is claimed that Thunar should be able to make thumbnails of JPEG's, PDF's etc. without this add-on. This is not happening for me even though I have evince, ImageMagick etc. installed.
Now, I tried to install PCManFM again after some time, since this used to be my fm-of-choice. And here, thumbnails show up for JPEG's, PDF's and what-else right away. So I opened Thunar again and browsed to the same folders I had visited with PCManFM, and this time Thunar gave me thumbnails as well!! But only for the files in folders I had visited with PCManFM
Is this expected behaviour? Is it a bug in Thunar? I want to keep using Thunar (I think), but I would also like this thumbnailing business to work automagically as it does in PCManFM. So I'm just wondering if I should report this to the Thunar folks, since they seem to claim that it should work without the -thumbnailers add-on, or if I should just install the -thumbnailers package and shut up ^^
Cheers
Last edited by mariusmeyer (2011-04-06 19:50:06)

Thank you! I installed tumbler and got thumbnails right away. This seems like the proper way to do it.
Cheers!

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