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The amount of improvements you have made in this app is incredible!It's been my only pixel art app since last July or so, and I have appreciated every new feature and performance boost.Thanks for all the hard work!

I have really been looking forward to having thumbnails for .pxo files and I was so excited when I saw it in the new release! Sadly, it doesn't seem to work in Linux Mint XFCE ( haven't tried any other OS yet as Linux is my daily driver). Is there anything that can be done about it?

I'm also still hoping for a less cumbersome way to import gifs.

Regardless, thank you so much for this release!

Variable93 days ago (1 edit)

Edit: i see I've posted this before, my bad

You can use ffmpeg to import gifs, as you are on Linux there's a good chance ffmpeg is pre installed.

You just have to type ffmpeg in the preferences>startup>ffmpeg path

illo_cello93 days ago

Oh, no worries! Yeah, you first showed me the ffmpeg trick some time back, thank you! But it works unpredictably and it would sometimes hang the app.

Meantime, is there anything I can do about the thumbnails? I've been having to save pngs with the same name as the pxo so that I can have an idea of what file I'm opening, but when working with multiple files, it tends to become cumbersome. Any help would be appreciated.

Variable93 days ago

There's currently one for the dolphin file manager. You can try to use that as reference for the nemo file manager (which mint uses)

https://github.com/OverloadedOrama/dolphin_pxo_thumbnailer/tree/main

illo_cello92 days ago(+1)

Mint XFCE uses Thunar, unfortunately. I just installed Dolphin and some extra Cmake modules, but it keeps throwing errors probably because I'm not on a native KDE environment. Hopefully, a version for Thunar can be made. It would really make my day! Thank you for all your help. I really appreciate it.

Orama Interactive90 days ago

Thank you for the kind words! You will be happy to know that in the next stable release, you will be able to import gifs without needing to rely on FFMPEG! The importing process will unfortunately be a bit slow for large gifs though because it is entirely written in GDScript, but in the future we could use C++ instead for native performance.

As for the thumbnails, there is not much we can do about that, it is up to each file manager to implement them. There is a thumbnailer for Dolphin that I made which Variable linked, but besides that I'm not sure if there is anything available at the moment.

illo_cello89 days ago(+1)

Thank you! I really appreciate it!

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