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Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#71180: [ELPA Feature Request] Package thumbnail Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 20:15:32 -0600 Message-ID: <86jzjgm24b.fsf@gmail.com> References: <86a5ken8py.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39723"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/30.0.50 (windows-nt) Cc: 71180@debbugs.gnu.org, Philip Kaludercic , Stefan Monnier To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 27 04:17:18 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1sBPvK-000ACk-Mt for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 27 May 2024 04:17:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sBPuy-0006gH-Ec; Sun, 26 May 2024 22:16:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sBPuw-0006fJ-3e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 May 2024 22:16:54 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:5::43]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1sBPuv-0002aB-Rs for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 May 2024 22:16:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1sBPv4-00081d-8j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 May 2024 22:17:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: "Elijah G." 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We would obviously need knobs to turn it off, the > feature would need to be tested on text displays, etc. I agree, i would like to help, but i don't know how *Help* buffer parses the package info or where is stored its code. > Instead of a header comment, we could just say that the thumbnail should > always be called "thumb.png" and be in the root directory of the > package, or something along those lines. I think that it would be better in the root directory, the reason why i choose the header comment is allow for 3rd-party package archives use that feature it for *help* buffers.