Bug affecting thumbnail creation ?

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Bug affecting thumbnail creation ?

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Hi.

I don't understand why, but about 20% of them are "blank" (ie using the default FC logo), within the start page.

Any idea ?

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Re: Bug affecting thumbnail creation ?

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Hmm...you're lucky, I've never gotten any percentage to get a thumbnail...for years! :roll:


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Re: Bug affecting thumbnail creation ?

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What puzzles me is the apparent randomness of the phenomenon.
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Re: Bug affecting thumbnail creation ?

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fcaduser wrote: Sat Oct 24, 2020 4:31 pm What puzzles me is the apparent randomness of the phenomenon.
Well...it's not random for me. It is 100% no thumbnail... 8-)
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Re: Bug affecting thumbnail creation ?

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Ok, so I take it back... :oops:

I expected to see the thumbnail in the file browser on my system. I see reading the wiki (go figure...) that it is supposed to display in the Startup workbench of recent files.

And, indeed it does.

But, I never have the Start up workbench in my list of active workbenches, so I never saw it before... :o

But, the wiki says nothing about them being displayed elsewhere. So, I was just letting my imagination get in the way... or maybe it was wishful thinking. :roll:
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Re: Bug affecting thumbnail creation ?

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The behavior is at least consistent. Whatever WB is activated (so "Start" included), I see a set of thumbnails on the first tab, but a little mutilated.
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Re: Bug affecting thumbnail creation ?

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After some research, there seems to be some magic one needs to apply to the file manager (in my case XFCE and Thunar) to see thumbnails.
(Note, not n FreeCAD, but in the file browser...)

Not sure it would work for a FreeCAD file, since the FC file is a zip file and the thumbnail is in a folder in the zip.

I'm assuming this is the case since other files and videos do show thumbnails.
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Re: Bug affecting thumbnail creation ?

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At least in your case it's a 100 % failure.
But in mine ? I really don't understand why *sometime* it doesn't work. Well, at this stage maybe only a developer would be able to give us a hint.
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Re: Bug affecting thumbnail creation ?

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I did note that after changing it in preferences, I had to save the file and reopen FC before I saw the thumbnail in the Start WB...
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Re: Bug affecting thumbnail creation ?

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Please check to see if there are open/closed tickets in the tracker about this issue.
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