[Nautilus-list] Re: gnocam camera:// moniker and thumbnailing

[John Sullivan <sullivan eazel com>]

on 5/9/01 10:06 AM, Michael Rothwell at rothwell holly-springs nc us wrote:

> 
> In nautilus/libnautilus-private/nautilus-thumbnails.c, I found this:
> 
> if (use_local_directory && is_local) {
> thumbnail_uri = g_strdup_printf ("%s/.thumbnails", directory_name);
> } else  {
> GnomeVFSResult result;
> GnomeVFSURI *thumbnail_directory_uri;
> 
> ... is there a place to set the use_local_directory flag to false via the GUI
> preferences?

There is no code or displayed preference to do this currently. The hardest
part is probably how to word the preference so that people can understand
it.

John

> 
> -M
> 
> On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:38:59PM -0400, Michael Rothwell wrote:
>> Hmm.. I just opened Nautilus by right-clicking on my "home" directory and
>> choosing "open." I then opened the preferences menu. Then I opened it again.
>> Then I thought to look on another desktop. :) Perhaps Nautilus could be
>> taught to open its dialogs in the same place as teh current window. And is
>> there a wy to make Nautilus open a new window if there's not already a window
>> with that view when opening desktop items?
>> 
>> I'll look at the thumbnails problem.
>> 
>> -M
>> 
>> On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 08:32:49AM -0700, John Sullivan wrote:
>>> on 5/9/01 5:20 AM, David Megginson at david megginson com wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Michael Rothwell writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> Another problem is, Nautilus cannot make a ".thumbnails" directory
>>>>> on the camera, so it cannot display thumbnails at all. It might be
>>>>> nice to have nautilus use a substitute directory in my home dir for
>>>>> read-only media like cameras and CDROMs, so that it can still show
>>>>> thumbnails for images on read-only media. Maybe
>>>>> ~.thumbnails/proxy/camera:__previews s20/IMG_0336.JPG.png"
>>>> 
>>>> I think it would be a good idea to use a substitute directory
>>>> *always*.  As a basic principle, Nautilus shouldn't pollute any
>>>> directories it doesn't own, except for the standard configuration
>>>> points ($HOME, $HOME/gnome, $HOME/.gnome-desktop).  With Nautilus 1.0,
>>>> I had the very unpleasant experience of burning a CD-ROM and finding
>>>> unwanted .nautilus-metafile.xml files all over it afterwards.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> All the best,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> David
>>> 
>>> You can set a preference so that Nautilus puts all the nautilus-metafiles
>>> into a single directory. The preference is the confusingly-named "Make
>>> Folder Appearance Details Public" and is found only at the Advanced user
>>> level in the Speed Tradeoffs pane. If you set this to Never then Nautilus
>>> will put all the nautilus-metafiles into a single directory.
>>> 
>>> (You can also turn off thumbnailing, but there's not currently an option to
>>> leave thumbnailing on but have all the thumbnails stored in a single
>>> directory. Perhaps some enterprising hacker would like to add that feature.)
>>> 
>>> John
>>> 
>>> 
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