GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 586739
Provide a way to disable thumbnails for files
Last modified: 2021-06-18 15:16:09 UTC
Please describe the problem: In nautilus to enable/disable image preview a lot of click (settings->preview ecc..) are needed and after that the previews are globally enabled/disabled, in other file manager such as dolphin or ms windows explorer for every folder (and not globally) I can enable/disable preview and I can do that from main toolbar (only one click). regards Nicola Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
Thanks for the bug report Nicola. Can you explain why you want to disable image previews?
Allan thanks for your response and excuse me for my bad english, I want to keep image preview disabled, there is a performance cost and an image preview for a pdf or a text file is useless for me, and I want preview enabled only when I need it and only on some folder such as the ones where I keep my photo, dolphin allow this and the users migrating from windows to linux are used to work in this way too. I hope my explaination is enough
I don't think we want to have per folder settings for thumbnailing. If there are privacy implications with previews then it probably should be done at a different level then the directory. Perhaps even kept in the file metadata itself. One way to do this would be to offer a little drop down from the icon selection in the Properties dialog. Currently we simply pop up a file chooser but it might be nice to offer the option in a menu to show no preview or select from a few options. Kinda like the button we have in the user accounts dialog.
*** Bug 648110 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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