The thumbnailer itself would not really need to know about th qrc stuff. Just the QQmlImageProvider part of the thumbnailer package. That could extract the image data from the qrc and pass it on to the thumbnailer.
Here's some code snipped that should give directions on how to do that: http://paste.ubuntu.com/15258195/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to thumbnailer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1550706 Title: Thumbnails not working with qrc Status in Client Developer Experience: New Status in thumbnailer package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The thumbnailer works only if I load images from the file system, not from a resource file: Image { id: backgroundImage anchors.fill: parent sourceSize: Qt.size(parent.width, parent.height) source: "image://thumbnailer/qrc:///images/menu-background.jpg" } The default sdk template uses qrc as template. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-developer-experience/+bug/1550706/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp