Files

Thumbnails in detail view are too tiny to be useful

Bug #1404500 reported by PerfectCarl on 2014-12-20

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Files	Opinion	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

The detail view shows thumbnails for videos (and images) and in most cases they are not useful because they are too tiny and the video (or image) is usually quite big.

In that case, the thumbnails should be hidden.

Note that if the image is tiny (like an icon when Files displays .desktop files) then the thumbnails are very useful and should be kept.

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PerfectCarl (name-is-carl) wrote on 2014-12-20:

files-sizes.png Edit (135.8 KiB, image/png)

Changed in pantheon-files:
assignee:	nobody → elementary UX Team (elementary-design)

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Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten) wrote on 2014-12-24:

So, whether a thumbnail is generated needs to depend on
1) The zoom-level
2) The type of file
and possibly the location of the file (e.g. on a slow network) - see https://bugs.launchpad.net/pantheon-files/+bug/1067061

Should Icon view behave the same or always show thumbnails?

Changed in pantheon-files:
status:	New → Confirmed

Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten) on 2014-12-24

Changed in pantheon-files:
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote on 2014-12-26:

To keep in creating consistency between views, I think grid view should behave the same. The question I guess is what size to create the cutoff at. It'd probably be simplest to keep it the same as when we hide/show the selection helpers right?

Changed in pantheon-files:
assignee:	elementary UX Team (elementary-design) → nobody

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Laureano (laureanogasparin) wrote on 2015-09-09:

how can i disable thumbnail on Files? Please!

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Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten) wrote on 2015-09-19:

There is no way to disable all thumbnails in Files at the moment. You could raise a wishlist-bug report about. You could uninstall the tumbler service but that would affect any other application using it. Thumbnailing on remote locations is disabled by default.

What is the motive for disabling all thumbnails? Speed?

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Zubalea (zubalea) wrote on 2015-09-19:

One motive is privacy.

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Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten) wrote on 2016-01-29:

On reflection I see no real benefit in hiding the thumbnails even if they are not useful at certain zoom levels in certain views; not worth the complication of the code anyway. There is a setting to set the minimum zoom level in each view.

The comment about being able to disable thumbnailing on local files is perhaps valid but should be the subject of a separate bug.