Re: JPEG thumbnailing latency

["Mike Rooney" <mrooney gmail com>]

So, are you saying fixing this bug would speed up thumbnailing
(looking at directories of images) greatly in Nautilus?

I just want to make sure I understand.

Thanks!
- Mike

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Vitezslav Kotrla <vitko post cz> wrote:
> I may have finally solved one of thumbnailing mysteries I've met in
> nautilus 2.22:
>
> While working with ufraw I've noticed that exported JPEG files got only
> generic 'image' type icon, not proper thumbnail. When I accidentally
> renamed one such file, it was instantly re-thumbnailed, this time
> correctly.
>
> It looks like ufraw creates empty JPEG file when conversion begins and
> it takes some time while data are finally written. In the meantime
> nautilus fails to thumbnail an empty file, so generic image filetype
> icon is assigned.
>
> Also enfuse works this way - it creates empty JPEG file first and starts
> writing output data later (20 seconds during my simple test, but of
> course even later depending on the workload).
>
> I wonder what is the proper solution?
>
> (Of course this is rather general issue, not limited to JPEG filetype
> mentioned in $SUBJ, I just wanted to provide some real world example. It
> may have been discussed or reported before, maybe someone can provide
> references?)
>
> Vit
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