F9: Nautilus weird behaviour for icons

[Joachim Backes]

Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 16:39 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> Some weird effect in F9: whem skipping through my Desktop folders with
>> nautilus, then the icon for .pdf files is sometimes the iconified
>> first page, sometimes a small clock. The same happens for .sxw .odt
>> documents.
> 
> The clock is the "wait a moment, while I create the icon" indicator.
> Eventually it should disappear to be replaced by an thumbnail picture
> that represents that particular file, or something more generic for the
> type of file.

Hi Tim,

maybe, but waiting some time does not generate another thumbnail. Seems
to depend from the files properties. Traversing .thumbnails does not help.

Regards

Joachim Backes

> 
>> Can somebody tell me why nautilus does not use each time the same
>> icon?
> 
> When it makes a thumbnail, it stores the image inside ~/.thumbnails/.
> It usually does use the same image that it's previously created, but
> perhaps there's a reason why it recreates them (e.g. the file's
> apparently changed content).  The thumbnails seem to be associated with
> the files with some sort of hash.  I don't know if it's a hash just
> based on the original file content, or includes filenames and paths as
> part of the equation.
> 


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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

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