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

[Ángel Navarro]

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

--- Comment #10 from Ángel Navarro <jesusnavarrojr188 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Méven from comment #8)
> (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.

I thought so the first time I had the bug, but I had kio-extras installed and
also installing or uninstalling ffmpegthumbnailer/ffmpegthumbs makes no
difference

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