[rox-devel] Re: thumbnail problem

[Stephen W. <st...@ke...>]

Nathan Howell <na...@cr...> wrote:

> On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 20:36:45 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote:
> 
> > When using the thumbnail view on a directory into which new images are
> > being slowly added (f.e. scp-ing from a slow remote server), Rox
> > constantly vacillates between displaying the thumbnail and just the
> > filename for incomplete files (i.e. the file currently being copied). 
It
> > tries to display the thumb, "realizes" that the file is incomplete, then
> > gives up and displays just the filename... but then immediately tries to
> > display the thumb again.
> 
> I've disabled video thumbnailing completely because of this behaviour. I
> couldn't leave a rox window open on a folder that any video files were
> downloading into without it using up way too much of my cpu continually
> generating thumbnails.

I'm currently working on a fix for this whereby the filer won't remake a
thumbnail if it is no more than 5 seconds from the last time it was made. 
This should reduce the problem when downloading large file.

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