On 25/10/2021 03:00, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Oct 24, 2021, at 20:56, Tim via users <users@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.
Again - this should be given back to users that executive
decision - which I'd advocate for - whether or not users
want/need thumbnails off their Android phones.
Problem in the past was not - if I remember correctly - that
transfer was slow. It rather was that the whole system would
"freeze" what such transfer took place.
It really could be simple - "Show Thumbnails = All files"
does what is says OR expand with one extra entry "All files
excluding USB Phone".
Anything really, but don't keep users in the dark .. perhaps
because they are all simpletons and.... devs know better.
many thanks, L.
ps. how can a user file such a request, in Bugzilla?
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