[Thunar-dev] Problem with thumbnails

[Erik Harrison]

On Feb 15, 2008 4:24 PM, Erlend Davidson <E.R.M.Davidson at sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Radomir Dopieralski wrote:
> > Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 06:16:09PM +0100:
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Sorry if this has already been discussed, I'm knew to this list and
> >> just tried searching with google.
> >> When I select a big image file in thunar (like a 100-300MB tiff) the
> >> computer hangs. Looking at top output I see thunar-vfs-pixb... using
> >> more than available memory (let say 100MB).
> >> How can I fix this? Is it possible to set a size limit or to
> >> blacklist those files?
> >> I thought about inserting an if just after the call to fstat in
> >> exo_gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file_at_max_size
> >> in file exo-gtk-pixbuf-extensions.c.
> >> Maybe a better solution is to add a parameter specifying the max file
> >> size to the function.
> >> For now I put big files in a separate directory and open them using
> >> the command line.
> >>
> >
> >
> > According to the thumbnail storage standard on http://freedesktop.org,
> > you can prevent generation of thumbnails for some files by making
> > matching files in the "failed" directory.
> That is true.  It's not a real solution though - this is a bug.
>
> The trouble with having a global size limit in Thunar is that some files
> are meant to be big - like video files (where just one frame will be
> extracted for the thumbnail).  The limits really have to be decided on a
> case-by-case basis for each mimetype.

Or, the thumbnailer should gracefully fail when overwhelmed, and let
Thunar use the generic icon for that mime type.

>
> Erlend
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