Nautilus does not obey Previews preferences for non-images

Bug #1060722 reported by Lisa Schmidt
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Nautilus
New
Undecided
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One Hundred Papercuts
Confirmed
Undecided
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

Setting Nautilus preferences for previews to generate thumbnails only for files smaller than X does not have any effect on non-images.

For example, if I set in Nautilus preferences to show thumbnails only for files smaller than 10 MB. Then Nautilus generates thumbnails only for images smaller than 10 MB -- but not for any other file type. Nautilus still generates thumbnails for non-images, such as videos or pdf files, regardless of their file size.

This is a huge problem for users who have lots of big sized video files and don't want them to get thumbnailed, but want to keep thumbnailing for pictures.

It gets especially annoying when downloading huge video files. Then the thumbnailing process goes on and on unless the file has finished downloading. As a user I feel forced to switch off thumbnailing completely as Nautilus fails to obey what is being set in the preferences.

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Lisa Schmidt (boxnotify) wrote :

This happens on Ubuntu 12.04.1.
Nautilus 3.4.2

Lisa Schmidt (boxnotify)
description: updated
summary: - Nautilus does not obey Previews preferences for files other than
- pictures
+ Nautilus does not obey Previews preferences for non-images
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Dario Ruellan (druellan) wrote :

I'm promoting this as a papercut. The solution seems complex, but meanwhile, the actual labeling of those options is misleading, and can be improved.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Tom Ato (tomato2-71)
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
milestone: none → raring-round-2
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
milestone: none → papercuts-nautilus
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
milestone: papercuts-nautilus → papercuts-s-nautilus
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