From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 7 23:34:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 932A616A4CE for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 23:34:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao08.cox.net (lakermmtao08.cox.net [68.230.240.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E02B243D2F for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 23:34:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.140]) by lakermmtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-117-20041022) with ESMTP id <20041207233445.VTBJ28664.lakermmtao08.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:34:45 -0500 Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:35:17 -0600 To: "Werner Lehmann" References: <41B21714.4000608@arcor.de> From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <41B21714.4000608@arcor.de> User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54 (Linux, build 751) cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about gnome X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 23:34:48 -0000 On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 20:59:16 +0100, Werner Lehmann wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > since I've installed FreeBSD 5.3 I use the gnome2.6 desktop. I also > checked out gnome2.8 on a diffrent harddisk. > Unfortunately, there is a feature I miss in the newer gnome versions > since gnome2.4: > > with gnome 2.4, video-files (mpeg1) were displayed as thumbnails in > nautilus, showing a frame from within a the video. The thumbnails still working fine here as long I install multimedia/gstreamer-ffmpeg and maybe recompile gstreamer-plugins with xine support might work too.. The rest else, marcus has covered. Cheers, Mezz > When double-clicking the thumbnails, the videos were immediately played > in a window by nautilus itself. > > this is not so anymore with gnome2.6 and 2.8. > > Is there a way to reactivate that feature? > > I also heard that gnome2.8 is able to use the new 3d-features offered by > Xorg, like true shadows and transparency. > Is that true? If so, how can I activate those? > > Thank you very much. > > Regards, > > Werner -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org