[kio-extras] [Bug 443806] Dolphin should allow option to cache thumbnails for separate encrypted devices / locations

[Alexander Wipperfürth]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443806

--- Comment #19 from Alexander Wipperfürth <wpprfrth at posteo.de> ---
There is actually another workaround you guys could try, symlink the 
folders you want to access on a regular basis and put the link into your 
~/ this somehow helped me and the thumbnails were loading faster, but 
this is still not the best solution.

On 27.03.23 19:22, bugzilla_noreply at kde.org wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443806
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> toroidalaxioms at gmail.com changed:
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> --- Comment #18 from toroidalaxioms at gmail.com ---
> I can only think the reason that this isn't a higher priority is that I went
> through a dozen different threads to find this one with a lot of users unaware
> for the cause of slow thumbnails. Having just updated from Kubuntu 20.04 to
> 22.04 this is (thankfully!) the only glaring bug I've found. It really does
> make using dolphin wearisome unless you just accept you can't use icons without
> unreasonable delay. Using encrypted drives are so prevalent I was surprised
> this issue is from 2021.
>
> Of the solutions the simplest would seem to be to just check if $HOME is
> encrypted and if so then allow the thumbnail cache for other encrypted drives.
> The toggle also makes sense, as would simply having the thumbnail directory
> itself encrypted, but my vote would be for whatever gets done the quickest.
>

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