Bug#993787: totem: split out thumbnailer in it's own package

[Mark Harfouche]

Hi All,

I would like to request for this to be the case for a few reasons:

1. It seems that the "thumnailing" functionality is tied to the video
player. This is somewhat problematic since I've had alot of hard time
getting the thumnailer to work, while the video player works wonders. But
since many colleagues of mine want thumbnailing to work, the only resort I
have is to ask them to remove the `totem-common` package altogether, thus
removing totem.

2. It seems that there are many unresolved bugs in ubuntu (and debian)
regarding thumbnailing with totem. It would be good if users had a choice
between different thumbnailers for video, and different video players.
totem-thumbnailer vs ffmpegthumbnailer, totem vs vlc come to mind. Today, I
cannot use totem + ffmpegthumbnailer.

I've asked ubuntu to split the package, but they referred me back to you.

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+question/704576

xref: Growing lists of segfaults dating back a long time in ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu?field.has_patch=&search=Search&field.assignee=&field.searchtext=totem-video-thumbnailer&field.bug_reporter=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.status=NEW&field.status=INCOMPLETE_WITH_RESPONSE&field.status=INCOMPLETE_WITHOUT_RESPONSE&field.status=CONFIRMED&field.status=TRIAGED&field.status=INPROGRESS&field.status=FIXCOMMITTED&field.has_no_package=

Thank you for your consideration.

Best,

Mark


On Mon, 06 Sep 2021 16:19:05 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer <
calestyo at scientia.net> wrote:
> Package: totem
> Version: 3.38.1-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> Hi.
>
> 1)
> totem and totem-common contains a lot of stuff,... totem itself, images,
translations
> and also the totem-video-thumbnailer (in totem) and it's related files
(in totem-common).
>
> Would you possibly consider to split that out into a separate package?
> It's used by several others for displaying purposes (I guess at least
nautilus and nemo)
> and thus makes sense to have it installed separtely for people who don't
use totem
> itself.
>
>
> 2)
> What might be even better is what I've been writing about in the end of
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=+973942#35
>
> Since there are numerous thumbnailers, I guess at least those:
> $ apt-file search /usr/share/thumbnailers/
> atril-common: /usr/share/thumbnailers/atril.thumbnailer
> blender-data: /usr/share/thumbnailers/blender.thumbnailer
> dia-common: /usr/share/thumbnailers/dia.thumbnailer
> evince: /usr/share/thumbnailers/evince.thumbnailer
> ffmpegthumbnailer: /usr/share/thumbnailers/ffmpegthumbnailer.thumbnailer
> geogebra-gnome: /usr/share/thumbnailers/geogebra.thumbnailer
> gnome-font-viewer: /usr/share/thumbnailers/gnome-font-viewer.thumbnailer
> gnome-hwp-support: /usr/share/thumbnailers/hwp-thumbnailer.thumbnailer
> gnome-nds-thumbnailer:
/usr/share/thumbnailers/gnome-nds-thumbnailer.thumbnailer
> gwyddion-common: /usr/share/thumbnailers/gwyddion.thumbnailer
> heif-thumbnailer: /usr/share/thumbnailers/heif.thumbnailer
> icoextract-thumbnailer:
/usr/share/thumbnailers/exe-thumbnailer.thumbnailer
> libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin:
/usr/share/thumbnailers/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer.thumbnailer
> libgsf-bin: /usr/share/thumbnailers/gsf-office.thumbnailer
> librsvg2-common: /usr/share/thumbnailers/librsvg.thumbnailer
> mate-control-center-common:
/usr/share/thumbnailers/mate-font-viewer.thumbnailer
> mcomix: /usr/share/thumbnailers/comicthumb.thumbnailer
> mypaint: /usr/share/thumbnailers/mypaint-ora.thumbnailer
> ooo-thumbnailer: /usr/share/thumbnailers/ooo.thumbnailer
> pentobi: /usr/share/thumbnailers/pentobi.thumbnailer
> qrenderdoc: /usr/share/thumbnailers/renderdoc.thumbnailer
> tiled: /usr/share/thumbnailers/tiled.thumbnailer
> totem-common: /usr/share/thumbnailers/totem.thumbnailer
>
>
> it would be nice if there was a virtual package or so, that all of these
could
> provide and that packages (like nautilus) would then depend on,... maybe
with
> some preference e.g.
> Depends: totem-thumbnailer | freedesktop-thumbnailer
>
> So people would get the standard pics/videos thumbnailer (i.e.
totem-thumbnailer)
> but could also easily find thumbnailers for more "exotic" formats like
blender.
>
>
> Obviously this would affect much more than just totem, and I have no real
idea where
> to repot a wishlist ticket for that.
>
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