Re: [ubuntu-uk] Icon-sized front pages of pdfs

2011-01-27 Thread Barry Drake
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 12:41 +, Patrick Bulteel wrote: > I agree - I have a LOT of pdfs and whenever I open that particular > directory it takes a few seconds to display all the files - it's not > regenerating thumbnails, it just seems to be ordering the files. I too > had to disable the preview

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Icon-sized front pages of pdfs

2011-01-27 Thread Patrick Bulteel
> > > > The thumbnails are only generated once AFAICT. Look in your ~/.thumbnail > directory ;-) > > Al > > > I agree - I have a LOT of pdfs and whenever I open that particular directory it takes a few seconds to display all the files - it's not regenerating thumbnails, it just seems to be orderi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Icon-sized front pages of pdfs

2011-01-27 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:38:39 +, "Alan Lord (News)" wrote: > On 27/01/11 11:35, Paul Sladen wrote: > >"Just takes a second" in the background is fine, as long as it does > > not block your getting on with things. If it is impeding your > > ability to click-ahead and get on with things, or pus

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Icon-sized front pages of pdfs

2011-01-27 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:22:18 +, Colin Law wrote: > On 27 January 2011 09:01, Rowan Berkeley > wrote: > > Hi, > > I have over a thousand pdf files, and I have noticed that every time > > I open one of the sub-folders containing them, the file manager > > starts whooshing around trying to coll

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Icon-sized front pages of pdfs

2011-01-27 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 27/01/11 11:35, Paul Sladen wrote: "Just takes a second" in the background is fine, as long as it does not block your getting on with things. If it is impeding your ability to click-ahead and get on with things, or pushing the computer's response time above the 100-millisecond time allowed b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Icon-sized front pages of pdfs

2011-01-27 Thread Paul Sladen
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Kris Douglas wrote: > On 27 January 2011 11:11, Paul Sladen wrote: > I don't think there is much to fix, it is perfectly quick. It's just > the process of generating an icon from a PDF takes a second. If there > is a lot of them, "Just takes a second" in the background is fin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Icon-sized front pages of pdfs

2011-01-27 Thread Kris Douglas
On 27 January 2011 11:11, Paul Sladen wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, mac wrote: >> On 27/01/11 09:01, Rowan Berkeley wrote: >> > ...There is a simple preferences box which >> You mean you only want to turn off thumbnails for pdfs, > > It would be good to get to the root cause here.  Is the desire f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Icon-sized front pages of pdfs

2011-01-27 Thread Paul Sladen
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, mac wrote: > On 27/01/11 09:01, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > > ...There is a simple preferences box which > You mean you only want to turn off thumbnails for pdfs, It would be good to get to the root cause here. Is the desire for turning off the icon previews because rendering is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Icon-sized front pages of pdfs

2011-01-27 Thread mac
On 27/01/11 09:01, Rowan Berkeley wrote: ...There is a simple preferences box which allows the usual modifications of what gets displayed in a file list, but I can't see how to deactivate this particular feature. Does anyone know a way? You mean you only want to turn off thumbnails for pdfs, bu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Icon-sized front pages of pdfs

2011-01-27 Thread Colin Law
On 27 January 2011 09:01, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > Hi, > > I have over a thousand pdf files, and I have noticed that every time I > open one of the sub-folders containing them, the file manager starts > whooshing around trying to collect tiny icon-sized copies of the front > pages of every pdf in t

[ubuntu-uk] Icon-sized front pages of pdfs

2011-01-27 Thread Rowan Berkeley
Hi, I have over a thousand pdf files, and I have noticed that every time I open one of the sub-folders containing them, the file manager starts whooshing around trying to collect tiny icon-sized copies of the front pages of every pdf in the sub-folder and display them next to the file details in t