On Oct 24, 2021, at 20:56, Tim via users
<users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> 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.
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.
If you read the context in the gitlab issue I posted, basically performance is terrible
when previews were being generated. Someone complained (back when it was originally filed)
that it should be controlled by a setting and the Nautilus/gvfs developers chose not to.
The only way it’ll be switched back is to open a new issue, perhaps with a merge request
with code improving the threading performance enough to make thumbnails not bring the
whole interface to a stall.
—
Jonathan Billings