[Bug 79943] it should be possible to limit the amount of disk space used by thumbnails (.thumbnails directory)

[john smeed]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79943





--- Comment #95 from john smeed <jrsmeed xtra co nz>  2012-01-05 07:05:53 ---
(In reply to comment #94)
> A large, ever-changing zip file would create even worse wearout on flash media
> than thousands of tiny files already do. Limiting the number of files/filesize
> is the way to go. Maybe even moving the .thumbnail dir into RAM until the
> system is shut down.
You could be right however my tests have revealed that there is little or no
speed gain, compared with creating thumbnails on the fly. Definitely not enough
to justify the space used.
My computer is slow compared with yours. (About 7 years old and has a Celeron
processor.)
Moving the thumbnail dir into memory is equivalent to what windows does with
its central directory, (a badly flawed concept). Both are very bad ideas.

My Verdict is that there is no justification for a central thumbnail directory.
Scrap it!!

It seems that this similar in effect to loading part of MS Office into memory
so that it loads faster. The supposed gains in speed prove to be mostly
illusory, and are a total waste of space.

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