I've just tested the very-wide png on my system. (Feisty) It doesn't really 'hang' but rather takes full CPU for quite some time (3 minutes over here, I guess depending on specs YMMV) During that time none of the 'nautilus-managed-windows' are being updated (so it surely feels like system locks up for a moment there)
I have the impression this is related to 'thumbnail generation' of those images since: - this long wait-time only occurs *once* when the image is displayed a first time in nautilus (and to be clear: not if I close nautilus and then come back into that directory with a new window, even if other content in that directory changed) (but it does again if I 'kill' nautilus rather then just 'close' the window) - this never happens if I disable the preview (Edit | Preferences > 'Preview' tab, choose 'never' for 'show thumbnails') - this happens again if I change the file-name of the very-wide.png (either through F2 in nautilus, or with a CLI mv command and then use nautilus to walk into that directory again) (interesting: the name-change itself is only displayed/updated in nautilus after this wait-time) By the way: I experienced this behaviour earlier on mounted remote (smb) disks where I assume the slow loading of the remote file will cause the effect earlier (i.e. for smaller files already) -- Nautilus hangs when browsing high-res PNG https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/117830 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs