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    <title><![CDATA[GNOME thumbnailer should extract icons from exe]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Thumbnailer should extract icons from exe files and let nautilus and other programs use them as a preview image.<br />
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<b>[528 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #2141</b>
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<b>[28 votes] Solution #2: Use .exe's icon, but put a Wine emblem on it</b>
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<b>[8 votes] Solution #3: This is already done and working, include it Ubuntu!!</b>
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  <title>Comment from Auzy</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Seems like one of those things that should be done, but may confuse users at this time as the exe's are not supported. This idea would need to be followed up with the addition of a popup box to install wine <br />]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from rossburton</title>
  <description><![CDATA[This is a trivial script using icotools:<br /><br />ICON_FILE=`tempfile --prefix win32 --suffix ico`<br />wrestool  -x -t14 --output $ICON_FILE $INPUT<br />COMMAND=`icotool -l --width 32 --height 32 $ICON_FILE | head --lines=1`<br />icotool --extract $COMMAND $ICON_FILE --output $OUTPUT<br />]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from jerieljan</title>
  <description><![CDATA[good idea, and while it's at it a small wine icon of some sorts should be inserted as well so that its easily identifiable that the said file is an executable]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from jrusinek</title>
  <description><![CDATA[There's a problemw with height. GNOME uses 48x48 by default, while some Windows apps have only 16x16 or 32x32 or even bigger.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from qaaq</title>
  <description><![CDATA[I wrote a thumbnailer that superimposes .exe icons on a wine logo. Works well! Installation instructions in the archive.<br /><br />http://www.mediafire.com/?ky94kc2jdjb<br /><br />Thanks for the start, Ross, and have fun everyone. I consider this script to be in the public domain.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from qaaq</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Also here: http://www.savefile.com/files/1413575]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from pilat</title>
  <description><![CDATA[+1.<br /><br />Not only for having good links to wine-driven applications, but some exes have really good iconsets to be used almost everywhere ;-)]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from alvevind</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Yes, but add something in the corner to show it is a "run in Wine application".]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Bender2k14</title>
  <description><![CDATA[@jrusinek<br /><br />Ideally, all graphics would be svg, so resolution would not matter.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from YokoZar</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Hmm, I'm not certain whether superimposing a Wine logo or just leaving the icon as it is is a better idea.  By adding the Wine logo we make it clear that the user is using Wine (and thus where entries will appear in the applications menu when it's installed), but on the other hand in a perfect world a user wouldn't even know they're running Wine.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 06:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from mhall119</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Ideally the wine package would contain the thumbnailer for .exe files, so that they only display their own icon when you have Wine installed to do something with them.  I would be okay with Wine over-laying it's own icon on top of that, to make users aware that it will be run through Wine.  <br /><br />This isn't a perfect world, and as long as Wine-installed applications are under the Wine menu, the distinction is already being made, so we may as well make the distinction in the thumbnail for consistency's sake.<br /><br />The only concern would be that .Net exe's can also be run through Mono.  Is there a way for Mono and Wine to determine which is better suited for running the file?  If so, then whichever one will run the file get's to put it's icon on top of the .exe's internal icon.  Then you have a handy way of seeing, at a glance, that setupA.exe uses Wine, but setupB.exe uses Mono.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Endolith</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Show the icons alone:<br /><br />http://www.objectnetworks.net/wiki/index.php?title=Exe_icon_for_Gnome<br /><br />http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=998758]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Endolith</title>
  <description><![CDATA[A thumbnailer for this exists already, but it's really not the correct solution to use a thumbnailer.  What we really want to do is set an icon, not a thumbnail.<br /><br />This is what happens when you do a thumbnail:<br /><br />http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21331762/gnome-exe-thumbnailer.png<br /><br />and this is what happens when you set the icons:<br /><br />http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21331797/Using%20icons%20as%20icons.png]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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