On 10/25/21 07:03, lejeczek via users wrote:
On 25/10/2021 02:06, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 2021-10-24 17:55, Tim via users wrote:
>> On Sun, 2021-10-24 at 16:34 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>> This is intentional. In order to make thumbnails, it would have to
>>> read the entire files from the device over the slow MTP link. Most
>>> people would be very unhappy about that because they wouldn't be able
>>> to do anything else until everything is read from the phone.
>>
>> The same can be said about other networking protocols, which is why we
>> had options to display them, or not, and let us make the choice about
>> consequences.
>
> You don't get thumbnails with sshfs or ftp (if you can still even use
> that), etc. I don't know about any options for that.
>
False! - we do get thumbnails, certainly with 'sftp' on my LAN I get
them no problems, in Nautilus.
L.
>> Trying to find a photo from a phone is a pain, they don't have useful
>> filenames. You've got to go trawling through them all to find
>> something. If you're organised, you might move photos into sensible
>> folder names as you go along. And you might decide that it is worth
>> turning on thumbnails to find the specific photo out of 20 from last
>> week's birthday party.
>
> I agree it's a pain getting a photo from a phone. That's why I copy
> them all off before trying to find one. I would certainly not want
> Nautilus to be trying to make thumbnails because that would make it
> almost useless. It would take the same amount of time to copy the
> files as it would to make the thumbnails and I would now have the
> pictures in a useful location.
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Similar behavior with iPhone, no thumbnails. Windows generates
thumbnails with sometimes visible sequencing but really only a minor delay.