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cyberius

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-08-30

Posts: 97

Very large images - how to stop thunar making thumbnails?

Hi there!

I tried both thunar and nautilus.

what I have seen, thunar creates thumbnails much faster than nautilus and its general performance is better.

BUT in nautilus I can set a filesize max, to which images are being "thumbnailed".
How can I do this in thunar?

The problem is, e.g. when I open a directory with some 40MB tiff / jpg with 20.000x10.000px it slows down my pc for about 5 minutes, creating a thumbnail.

Is there a solution?

In google I only found a discussion on the thunar dev mail list about this topic (http://www.mail-archive.com/thunar-dev@ … 03536.html), but they didnt come to any solution..

Last edited by cyberius (2010-06-18 07:20:37)

Lazze

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From: Bangkok, Thailand

Registered: 2008-09-28

Posts: 133

Re: Very large images - how to stop thunar making thumbnails?

As far as I know, thunar uses the thunar-thumbnailer package for creating thumbnails. If this package isn't installed no thumbnails will be generated what so ever.

cyberius

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-08-30

Posts: 97

Re: Very large images - how to stop thunar making thumbnails?

Hi

Yes this is true, but I want to have thumbnails
But they shouldnt be created if the image is too big so it slows down the pc, like nautilus does..

Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 1,011

Re: Very large images - how to stop thunar making thumbnails?

As far as I know, Thunar's thumbnailer plug-in does not have a way to specify this (unless you feel like writing it into in the source ).

Lazze

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From: Bangkok, Thailand

Registered: 2008-09-28

Posts: 133

Re: Very large images - how to stop thunar making thumbnails?

Seems like there's no way to do this, except for writing to the source as stated above.
There's an open bug on a similar issue on launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunar/+bug/175176