Question about gnome

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On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 20:59:16 +0100, Werner Lehmann <elvis69 at arcor.de>  
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


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