GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 105507
stop button should stop thumbnail creation
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:29:49 UTC
ATM when you open a directory with, say, a couple of 100 photos, for the first time it will start thumbnailing the photos. It'd be great if this proess could be stopped by pressing the stop button on the taskbar.
This is a usability issue because: * It is important to be able to stop any process which might interfer with the user's use of the computer. * The stop button is also a way of indication that the program is doing something.
*** Bug 130167 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Upgrading to 2.4.x and setting component->thumbnails.
bug still here with 2.8.1
Is there a reason this bug isn't resolved, or a clear reason stated as to why it shouldn't be (so it can be subsequently closed)? Seems trivial to impliment and anything that stops thumbail creation of a directory with thousands of images will allow people to navigate to subdirectories without waiting _minutes_ for the display to realize and allow control.
It's probably not closed because nobody sent a patch for it yet. Patches are welcome if you want to work on this "trivial" issue :)
I'd like to work on this issue, but I wonder how we visualize for users that the actual folder loading is finished, and we're just creating thumbnails. Should we have another throbber for that, or a status bar message?
*** Bug 345192 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
For me this worked as the reporter described.
The usability issue isn't that you need to be able to stop thumbnails loading. It is that the icons jump around while the thumbnails are being generated. Fixing the icon view layout should resolve this. The performance issue is separate. Can we use https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345192 for that?
Let's stick with this bug for the desired behaviour, but I'd reference the dupe for the reasoning behind it We already have a bug for the jumpy thumbnail generation issue. That addresses the main usability reason for this: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524363
Allan, can you fix the summary to reflect what this bug really is about? Especially now that we don't have a stop button anymore…
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