[Bug 275044] New: Konqueror spams home-dir with .thumbnails and does not clean up afterwards
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=275044 Summary: Konqueror spams home-dir with .thumbnails and does not clean up afterwards Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: KDE AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: sven.burmeister@gmx.net QAContact: qa@suse.de I just found .thumbnails in my home-dir, which apparently belongs konqueror and it's preview thumbnails. That directory is full of old and hence useless thumbnails which build up to 350 MB of data. I do not use to hover pictures very often, neither do I use the icon-view in any of my folders, so for people who do this might even be a lot more of data garbage. I am not sure what the reason for keeping thumbnails of pictures I open/preview once and never again is, yet since this seems to be an unlimited problem, i.e. until there is no space left it seems like a grave bug to me, since having 0 bytes left in ~ can lead to data loss, if the user is unlucky. Expected behaviour: Set a strict limit to that dir, clean up old/unneeded thumbnails, disable that feature by default unless learns to behave. If it is not konqueror that this directory belongs to, please re-assign. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=275044 ------- Comment #1 from sven.burmeister@gmx.net 2007-05-16 00:06 MST ------- It seems that this is a general bug. The gimp creates pictures in that dir too, when opening them and does not clean up afterwards. It is even worse that when there are 0 bytes left and it has multiple files to open, it continuously tries to create thumbnails anyway and stops responding. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=275044 ------- Comment #2 from stbinner@novell.com 2007-05-17 02:24 MST -------
I am not sure what the reason for keeping thumbnails of pictures I open/preview
It's a cache to speed up things assuming you will view them again. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=275044 ------- Comment #3 from sven.burmeister@gmx.net 2007-05-17 03:00 MST ------- If I save some files in ~ and thus fill up the partition, causing 0 bytes left and hence issues when retrieving email, or logging into KDE, fair enough. But if this is caused by some automagic that is not limitable and hidden from the user anyway, it should know how to behave and since it does not, it seems to be broken by design. Or would you just call this bad luck for the user and one should know how to deal with this issue? It's fine to keep those thumbnails, but this should never ever cause problems unless the user explicitly accepts those, e.g. by turning it on and knowing that it will never clean up and thus can cause 0 bytes left on the home-partition. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=275044 ------- Comment #4 from coolo@novell.com 2007-05-22 10:48 MST ------- http://jens.triq.net/thumbnail-spec/ - I'm afraid no-one ever implemented a cleanup mechanism -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=275044 ------- Comment #5 from sven.burmeister@gmx.net 2007-05-22 11:42 MST ------- Should I write the author and ask for the obvious or will you do that? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=275044 coolo@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jpr@novell.com, kde-maintainers@suse.de AssignedTo|bnc-team- |jpallen@novell.com |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | Severity|Critical |Major Summary|Konqueror spams home-dir |.thumbnails "cache" is never cleared |with .thumbnails and does | |not clean up afterwards | ------- Comment #6 from coolo@novell.com 2007-05-23 05:06 MST ------- the author of what? The problem is real and is not just konqueror. ~/.thumbnails is declared a cache, but no tool does really treat it as cache, but basically as dumping ground. Jared, can you please drive the development of a small cleanup tool we can use in both desktops on interval and/or logout? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=275044 ------- Comment #7 from sven.burmeister@gmx.net 2007-05-23 06:01 MST ------- I thought Jens Finke would be the author of that spec and thus to be asked why it does not include any means to manage the "cache". But as long as this is fixed, I do not really care who's in charge. :) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=275044 jpallen@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|jpallen@novell.com |jpr@novell.com ------- Comment #8 from jpallen@novell.com 2007-05-24 07:33 MST ------- Actually, this is more of a platform bug so I am assigning to jpr. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=275044 ------- Comment #9 from sven.burmeister@gmx.net 2007-06-07 23:53 MST ------- I just found kcontrol > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Cache for thumbnails. Very well hidden! :) And it still has to be apllied manually and does not give the user any information which data is actually deleted. It clears the .thumbnail-directory. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
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