Re: Losing thumbnails in gnome 2.23

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

Thx for pointing this. This REALLY sucks. But I guess it's what you get
when you stick to standards.

s, really pissed off

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 14:02 +0300, Giannis M. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just moved to ubuntu intrepid and came upon an issue with thumbnails.
> I started f-spot and scrolled through my photos (~ 13K) which started
> generating thumbnails. After having generated most of the thumbnails I
> had to reboot. Firing up f-spot again the oldest thumbnails where
> gone.
> 
> I think this new gnome-settings-demon housekeeping plugin is the
> culprit :
> http://lwn.net/Articles/278911/
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523159
> 
> I used gconf-editor to disable the plugin
> (key /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/housekeeping/active) and the
> problem was gone. Another solution could be to change values in
> (/desktop/gnome/thumbnail_cache/).
> 
> While this is not an f-spot bug, (more like a gnome 'feature') it is
> going to be really frustrating for f-spot users when distributions
> start shipping with gnome 2.24. And having users tamper with gconf
> settings will probably raise complaints.
> 
> Yiannis.
> 
> 
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