How to enable thumbnail preview for text files in Nautilus

Question

I have many small text files, and want Nautilus to show previews in the icon thumbnail.

Left is my current situation, right is what I want.

How to achieve that on Ubuntu 15.10?

My current Nautilus settings:

If an official solution is not available, workarounds/hacks are accepted too.

retracted my dupe vote, since it does not automatically set the icons, but it might be helpful. askubuntu.com/questions/558846/generate-thumbnails-for-text — Jacob Vlijm, Feb 22, 2016 at 8:31
As my answer says, the feature has been removed. I don't know what more you expect to find out. — muru, Feb 22, 2016 at 9:00

Nicolas Raoul · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-22 09:01:04Z

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According to this Nemo issue, this feature was removed in GTK itself.

Reason cited by GTK:

GtkIconTheme: Drop the code for parsing .icon files
Modern icon themes don't ship .icon files anyway.

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answered Feb 22, 2016 at 8:28

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