[MIR] gnome-exe-thumbnailer, imagemagick, icoutils

Bug #604477 reported by Scott Ritchie
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-exe-thumbnailer (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned
icoutils (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
imagemagick (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-exe-thumbnailer

gnome-exe-thumbnailer is a UI-less script for showing the icons embedded in executable files. Without gnome-exe-thumbnailer, all Windows .exes show up as mysterious blue question mark diamonds without any clue as to their purpose or function.

Integration of gnome-exe-thumbnailer into main (and part of the default install) is the first step of the karmic wine integration blueprint: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/karmic-wine-integration - while the first step of the blueprint, it functions as a nice usability enhancement of its own

gnome-exe-thumbnailer depends on imagemagick and icoutils, two console programs with no translation or interface requirements

In terms of file size, gnome-exe-thumbnailer is about 150k, imagemagick is 100k, and icoutils is 200k, for a combined CD impact of just under half a megabyte.

In terms of upstreams, I am the personal upstream of gnome-exe-thumbnailer (I'll be adding it to winezeug soon: http://code.google.com/p/winezeug). imagemagick is an active project: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php as is icoutils: http://www.nongnu.org/icoutils/ -- both have made releases this year.

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Nelson A. de Oliveira (naoliv) wrote : Re: [Bug 604477] [NEW] [MIR] gnome-exe-thumbnailer, imagemagick, icoutils

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Scott Ritchie <email address hidden> wrote:
> In terms of file size, gnome-exe-thumbnailer is about 150k, imagemagick is 100k, and icoutils is 200k, for a combined CD impact of just under half a megabyte.

Note that imagemagick also depends on libmagickwand3 (compressed
package size of ~350K) and libmagickcore3 (compressed size of 1.7M).

Revision history for this message
Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

please get a confirm/backup from desktop team that they want to have this in the default install. let them comment here and set back to new.

Changed in gnome-exe-thumbnailer (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Alexander Sack (asac)
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in icoutils (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in imagemagick (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote :

icoutils is apparently already in main

Changed in icoutils (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

imagemagick is in main now

closing the gnome-exe-thumbnailer ask as won't fix. please reopen if necessary

Changed in imagemagick (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-exe-thumbnailer (Ubuntu):
assignee: Alexander Sack (asac) → nobody
status: Incomplete → Won't Fix
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