[Thunar-dev] how to disable thumbnails

[hernux]

thanx for the info.. the key is "/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers" (if any 
other wants to disable it)

thanx again
Hernán


Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> hernux wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there any way to disable the auto generation of thumbnails for movies?
>> I think that a thumbnail for a movie is very useless, specially if the 
>> program takes the first frame, as it's always a blank screen or a 
>> picture that doesn't identify the movie itself, so, thumnails are all 
>> the same, and it takes too much time to create them.  When I open a 
>> folder with ten or more movies, it takes several minutes to it, to 
>> create the thumbs.. during that time, the screen reloads every while, 
>> and I can't even rename a file, as it exits edit mode before reloading 
>> the screen.
>>
>> any way, is there a way to disable this option? or where can I change 
>> the list of file types / mime types that thunar is generating thumbs (I 
>> mean, if its handcoded).
>>     
>
> There's currently no way to disable thumbnailing (to be fixed soon).
>
> Thunar uses GdkPixbuf loaders to generate thumbnails, and (if compiled 
> with gconf) also uses the registered GNOME thumbnailers. The movie 
> thumbnailer is probably the one installed by totem. You can use 
> gconf-editor or gconf-tool to disable GNOME thumbnailers (don't remember 
> the key though).
>
>   
>> Thanx,
>> Hernux
>>     
>
> Benedikt
>