GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 65239
some SVG files get bitmap thumbnails, others don't
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
When opening a directory with a few new svg-files nautilus creates thumbnails for these files, but does this as bitmap-image not as vector-image (wich is its default behaviour.) Removing the created thumbnail and refreshing the view doesn't affect the result, yet sometimes creating a duplicate (right-click -> duplicate) will create new thumbnail in correct way.
Changing to "old" target milestone for all bugs laying around with no milestone set.
This is not really a bug, just bad design. For small graphic files (a file size cutoff), Nautilus displays the files as "thumbnails of themselves". This means that it just uses the file itself as its own icon. For larger files, Nautilus creates a thumbnail, assuming that loading the whole file every time is too slow. The thumbnails are always .png files. The thumbnails always include borders, but the "thumbnails of themselves" don't. I'm not sure what to do about this.
There's another bug here too, which might deserve a separate bug report. The thumbnails with borders look silly because the opaque border surrounds an image with transparent parts.
Another lame aspect is that the bitmap thumbnails don't zoom well.
Created attachment 6553 [details] Screenshot of the bug visible (see film.svg, slides.svg and camera.svg in the screenshot)
No need to fix this as part of the Gnome 2 port, but it would be good to fix it later.
reporter could you attach some sample icons that i can use to test this with. We recently switched to the thumbnail management standard and I'm not sure if this is still an issue or not. (presumably could be)
I had this issue too, but in Nautilus 2.2 it is fixed. Closing this bug.