Thumbnail preview support for art program file types on Nautilus

Ubuntu Version:
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS x86_64

Desktop Environment:
GNOME 46.0

Problem Description:
I want to be able to see the preview of these file formats especially since not all of these programs exists on Linux. I can at least open *.kra and *.mdp on their respective program but for others I’m not sure about. As of right now I just have to deal with either using a Windows Virtual Machine or dual booting into Windows to manage the files, the file types are:

  • *.kra - Krita*
  • *.mdp - MediBang Paint Pro/FireAlpaca*
  • *.clip - Clip Studio Paint
  • *.sai - PaintTool SAI
  • *.sai2 - PaintTool SAI 2
  • *.psd - Photoshop

*Program available on Linux
If these doesn’t exist yet, is there a way for me to make my own interpreter or thumbnailer executable for it to make nautilus at least show it? Can I or someone else use Windows’s dll for these files and port it to Ubuntu? Thank you

Screenshots or Error Messages:

What I’ve Tried:
Googled these file formats to no avail, only found unrelated programs or pages that had the same name as the file format.

Managed to create a thumbnailer for Krita though using this guide, https://krita-artists.org/t/krita-thumbnails-in-ubuntu-24-04-how-to/126701. This doesn’t work for any other type of art program, I assume because they’re not a simple zip unlike Krita does?

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Also .xcf thumbnail are missing also if GIMP is available in Ubuntu.