[Bug 166175] Need mechanism for indicating which page of a document to use for a thumbnail

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166175

--- Comment #7 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
I don't see a single reason to implement something that seems to be needed for
a single person. Look: there is a "similar" bug 150317 mentioned in comment 2;
a change was implemented to address it; and it doesn't fit the submitter of
that bug, as seen in comment 3. The idea of Fritz is reasonable (note how it's
different from what Eyal asks); and I do not believe that any way to customize
the *document* to define some place to use as a thumbnail is generally usable -
while I can see someone creating an own *art* to be used as the custom
thumbnail. "Current" page? Absolutely unreasonable - both for the author /
editor (the view in the moment of saving could make that thumbnail completely
non-distinguishable), and for readers (what does the place of editing has to do
with the document essence?). A "metadata"? Separate from content -> will
immediately need manual synchronization after a slightest edit. An in-document
"marker"? Well, maybe - but that would be likely difficult to maintain; e.g.,
it is most possibly be invisible in "normal" mode (= without formatting marks);
and then it will be easily dropped...

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