Should "Delete recent history" in Privacy settings also delete thumbnails?

[Gokul Kartha]

On Sunday, January 19, 2014, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote:

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> On 19 January 2014 11:33, Adam Dingle <adam at medovina.org<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'adam at medovina.org');>
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>> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <
>> joerlend.schinstad at ubuntu.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
>> 'joerlend.schinstad at ubuntu.com');>> wrote:
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>> In the Privacy settings, you can choose not to store things you do in
>> Zeitgeist or you can delete entries based on time, such as delete all
>> entries from the last hour. However, this does not delete associated
>> thumbnails.
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>> Would it make sense that if you've chosen not to log a specific
>> directory, then thumbnails also aren't saved to ~/.cache/thumbnails/ and if
>> you delete past history, then the thumbnails for those files are also
>> deleted from the cache?
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>> Yes, I think that makes sense and I agree that users would probably
>> assume that this is the case already.  Someone else has noticed this in
>> comment 10 at this bug:
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>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgnomeui/+bug/94230
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>>  adam
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> That's interesting. Thanks for the reference. I'm not entirely sure
> libgnomeui and eog are the right packages for this bug though. I'd rather
> connect it to thumbnailers such as totem-thumbnailer, Unity Control Center
> and possibly Zeitgeist. After all, this might be a useful feature in most
> cases where Zeitgeist is used for this.
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> In any case, it seems obvious to me that the thumbnailer
> (totem-thumbnailer in our case) should be connected to this bug. Because if
> you don't want thumbnails for a specific directory, then you certainly want
> to first create them and then delete. Perhaps you might want the
> thumbnailer to create the thumbnails in the specified directory and then
> create links for them in ~/.cache/thumbnails/? It probably wouldn't solve
> the problem entirely, but it would certainly be a step in the right
> direction.
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> Perhaps at a later time, folder encryption could be added, which would be
> nice.
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