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

[flan_suse]

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

--- Comment #26 from flan_suse <windows2linux at zoho.com> ---
Because I can't create a KDE Identity account (my email gets flagged as
"spam"), I'll reply in here to Nate.

On the merge request Nate wrote:

"Personally I think the ideal way to fix this would be to store the thumbnails
for files located on an encrypted drive on that drive itself, rather than in
the user's home directory."

Please don't do this.

1. It breaks from standards
2. External drives are slower, especially with laptops that use NVMe and SSD
internal drives
3. It's incongruent with network shares
4. It creates extra (slower) writes on an external USB

If the user's home directory lives on an encrypted space, this should be a
non-issue from the very beginning. Store cached thumbnails in the standard
directory.

If the user's home directory does not live on an encrypted space, give the
user's a choice (such as a simple option of "Allow storing thumbnails of images
from encrypted source in the user's cache".

You can even have this option regardless...

Let's not make this more complicated than it needs to be.


Encrypted home? No problems. Store thumbnails like they have been for years and
years.

Plain home? Default to a "secure" method, but give the user the option to
change this.

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