Comment 5 for bug 438484
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| Troy James Sobotka (troy-sobotka) wrote | #5 |
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Nautilus needs to be insulated from thumbnailers crashing the entire system.
As it is now, and has been for at least four or five releases, I can easily drag down my entire desktop file browser via an SVG thumbnail or video codec thumbnail.
Medium seems like a low priority given that these sorts of bugs completely prevent Nautilus from starting up - or worse - if the file is located on the audience member's desktop. It results in a system that is unrecoverable in terms of browsing a system, searching for files, etc.
Is there a way of preventing a thumbnailer from crashing Nautilus? It would seem more logical to patch Nautilus at the source and have a generic icon displayed instead of having the entire system get stuck in a loop of crashing.