Nautilus ExIF-Thumbnails
Hi
Nautilus calculates thumbnails for images (if you want this) and saves them under ~/.thumbnails to improve the performance the next time you view the folder.
Nautilus is clever enough to get the ExIF thumbnails of JPEGs taken by a »modern« digital camera. Unfortunately it also copies these thumbnails to ~/.thumbnails which leads to a very poor performance (compared to just displaying the thumbs) and wasted free disk space. Is there a way to prevent nautilus from »extracting« the thumbs? Any gconf-switches? Any ideas (except of don't use Nautilus I like the way it's integrated in the GNOME-Environment)?
Hannes
For movies I use the imdb-thumbnailer tool (it's in AUR). If I look in the source for the code that registers the thumbnailer, I find this:
for i in $video_extensions; do
gconftool-2 -s "/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/$i"/command -t string '$THUMBNAIL_COMMAND
gconftool-2 -s "/desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/$i"/enable -t boolean 'true'
done
Search google for the thumbnail command and google for the list of extensions.
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==> Enter n° of packages to be installed (ex: 1 2 3 or 1-3)
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116a110
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119a114
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150a166,167
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151a169
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152a171
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167a187
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169,170c189,192
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196a220
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203a228
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213c238
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hi all,
i'm using xfce4 as DE, but, instead of xfdesktop as desktop icon manager, i keep using nautilus ('nautilus -n': run automatically at session login) 'cos i like some features xfdesktop doesn't have, such as: more flexible icons repositioning, icons resizing, etc..
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i've solved this way:
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restarted nautilus and everything is back to normal
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File: gnome-thumbnail.c
changed:
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size = 128;
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hi to everybody,
i have a little problem: i can't have working thumbnail preview of video file
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video@x-mpeg video@x-webm video@x-mkv application@x-extension-webm \
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but anything is changed .....
any tips ? i need help !
thanks
EDIT: i have latest software from repo (not testing s) also ffmpegthumbnailer and tumbler
Last edited by nTia89 (2011-08-19 16:25:56)solved with an AUR package:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49555
installed, rebooted and nautilus magically have video thumbnail..... gnome3 isn't enough mature
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