Gramps AIO64-6.0.0–1, Windows 11
I have some sources in Word (.docx) format. Saved to Person Gallery in that file format (also .pdf and .htm) without being able to display the document contents upon clicking on the document within Gallery.
I was wondering if there is a list of valid file formats that will display in Gallery. Did not see such a list in the User Manual.
I think that you mean to ask what thumbnailer plugins exist?
Any file format that is supported in your OS is valid for opening the OS’s viewer/helper application. And even files that are not viewable/editable are still ‘valid’. But only some of those will have a thumbnail that represents the content.
@Nick-Hall just did an experiment with an addon thumbnailer that generates a thumbnail of a webpage
By default Gramps comes with two thumbnailers installed: an image thumbnailer that deals with “image/*” mime types and Gnome thumbnailer that will produce thumbnails for a wide variety of formats.
The Gnome thumbnailer is only useful if the Gnome desktop is being used.
You can also write your own thumbnailers as addons.
I’m not looking for thumbnail displays in Gallery for text documents. Rather, I’m looking for a read only solution for .docx (or .pdf or . htm) files from within Gallery (not to edit). Many of my primary Sources are Word documents written by my parents re: facts of their lives and families.
I currently have them saved in a directory on my computer. If I make them a Source in Gramps, then I could copy/paste the full path into the Pub. info. field of the Source header. Alternatively, I could paste the full path into the Volume/Page field of a Citation. In either case, to read the Source or Citation, I would need to copy the path and paste it into the search box of Windows File Explorer, then click on the resultant file name that appears in File Explorer to read the document.
It would be more efficient to add the file into a Gramps Gallery (for the Person, Family, Source, or Citation) so a simple double-click could bring it up for viewing.
Perhaps this should be a feature request for future Gramps upgrades?
As stated above, Nick did a test earlier this month with a “webthumb” Thumbnailer plugin that would make a small rendering of a webpage. He asked me (eMail “Web thumbnailer plugin for external web pages” 3 Mar 2025) to test the Windows install and compatibility. (Installation was a bit complicated by needing Selenium and needing a restart.)
Now that Gramps 6.0 supports URLs for images as Media paths, I am hoping for a thumbnailer that will cache preview images for online files. (Not for HTML, but for remote images.)
So the example.gramps could have a preview thumbnail for media objects with paths like:
https://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/images/2/27/MainWindow-PeopleCategory-PeopleTreeView-annotated-50.png
Or, more importantly, to a screenshot that illustrates where to reset the media path … while illustrating at least 1 gallery image that works immediately.
