GNOME RAW Images

Viewing and generating thubmnails for RAW photos in GNOME

Viewing and generating thubmnails for RAW photos in GNOME

To View

Use Eye of GNOME instead of Loupe. Install eog with:

sudo pacman -Syu eog

To generate thumbnails

Create ~/.local/share/thumbnailers/ if it does not exist:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/thumbnailers/

Copy /usr/share/thumbnailers/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer.thumbnailer to ~/.local/share/thumbnailers/:

cp /usr/share/thumbnailers/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer.thumbnailer ~/.local/share/thumbnailers/

Add the following MIME types to the end, then save and exit. Note that not all MIME types have been verified:

image/x-xpixmap;image/x-3fr;image/x-adobe-dng;image/x-arw;image/x-bay;image/x-canon-cr2;image/x-canon-crw;image/x-cap;image/x-cr2;image/x-crw;image/x-dcr;image/x-dcraw;image/x-dcs;image/x-dng;image/x-drf;image/x-eip;image/x-erf;image/x-fff;image/x-fuji-raf;image/x-iiq;image/x-k25;image/x-kdc;image/x-mef;image/x-minolta-mrw;image/x-mos;image/x-mrw;image/x-nef;image/x-nikon-nef;image/x-nrw;image/x-olympus-orf;image/x-orf;image/x-panasonic-raw;image/x-pef;image/x-pentax-pef;image/x-ptx;image/x-pxn;image/x-r3d;image/x-raf;image/x-raw;image/x-rw2;image/x-rwl;image/x-rwz;image/x-sigma-x3f;image/x-sony-arw;image/x-sony-sr2;image/x-sony-srf;image/x-sr2;image/x-srf;image/x-x3f;

(WIP) troubleshoot

If the steps above doesn’t work, try installing libopenraw:

sudo pacman -Syu libopenraw

However, eog seem to have issues rendering the RAW images with libopenraw installed.

References

https://discuss.pixls.us/t/cr2-and-dng-thumbnails-in-nautilus/10350/5

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-raw-thumbnailer-really-isnt-doing-its-job/6073/4

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