[dolphin] [Bug 493274] Endless loop of new thumbnails in /tmp

[Méven]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493274

Méven <meven at kde.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEEDSINFO                   |CONFIRMED
         Resolution|WAITINGFORINFO              |---
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
                 CC|                            |meven at kde.org

--- Comment #8 from Méven <meven at kde.org> ---
(In reply to Ángel Navarro from comment #7)
> If I open a folder containing photos of videos and wait Dolphin to generate
> thumbnails and then I go to the /tmp folder, Dolphin starts generating
> thumbnails for those "dolphin-*" and "plasmashell-*" thumbnails and then
> generates thumbnails for those thumbnails it had just created and so the
> loop continues. You need to leave the window open for it to happen so
> Dolphin will be continuosly creating them. If you open a terminal and run
> 'watch -n 0.1 sudo du -h -s /tmp', you can see the disk usage growing a bit
> slowly but then it scales up.
> 
> Arch Linux

I have tested it, this happens because you don't have installed kio-extras
which provides the default thumbnailers, that don't write ever to /tmp, the
none-default are the ones provided in /usr/share/thumbnailers/
It needs to be special cased.

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