[lubuntu-users] Shouldn't the thumbnail function be switched OFF by default

[Brendan Perrine]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:00:03 +0200
scrooyahoo at riseup.net wrote:

> I'm going to suggest to the pcman devs to include the option in the 
> preferences...
> 
> If i can find where they live...
> 
> On 2016-08-24 00:09, Israel wrote:
> > Hi,
> > There are a few REALLY simple ways to circumvent this.
> > 
> > 1) use imagemagick, because it can thumbnail everything... really....
> > pdf, images, movies.... Here is one for movies
> 
> > save it as /usr/share/thumbnailers/imagemagick-video.thumbnailer
> >  voila, fast, and easy
> > 
> > 2) delete the totem-video-thumbnailer file from the same directory
> > 
> > no more pesky thumbnails.
> 
> bloody hell, that .thumbnail folder was HUGE already and i installed 
> this pc only a few weeks ago! Even PDF's, screenshots,  this can't be 
> good for the performance in the long run when you open up a folder and 
> then it has to dig trough all the tumbnails in 1 folder and match those 
> with the actual files....  That's a big waste of time and energy...
> 
> If other people would use this PC i could even consider this to be a 
> privacy issue.... I really don't want to know what kind of video's other 
> people have played....
> 
> And still i can see how other people may really like this feature.
> As eyecany, or to spy on their family. :-s  So teens be aware, daddy can 
> find your hidden thumbnails!!! :-)
> 
> 
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You can find this at Edit prefences display tab of pcmanfm and choose to disable them  alltogether or not show bigger that a file size in kilobytes. 

If you have the prefrences set to a size in kilobytes and it shows thumbnails on bigger files that is a bug and should be reported on launchpad. 
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Brendan Perrine <walterorlin at gmail.com>