Nautilus does not obey Previews preferences for non-images

[Lisa Schmidt]

Setting Nautilus preferences for previews to generate thumbnails only for files smaller than X does not have any effect on non-images.

For example, if I set in Nautilus preferences to show thumbnails only for files smaller than 10 MB. Then Nautilus generates thumbnails only for images smaller than 10 MB -- but not for any other file type. Nautilus still generates thumbnails for non-images, such as videos or pdf files, regardless of their file size.

This is a huge problem for users who have lots of big sized video files and don't want them to get thumbnailed, but want to keep thumbnailing for pictures.

It gets especially annoying when downloading huge video files. Then the thumbnailing process goes on and on unless the file has finished downloading. As a user I feel forced to switch off thumbnailing completely as Nautilus fails to obey what is being set in the preferences.

[Lisa Schmidt (boxnotify)]

This happens on Ubuntu 12.04.1.
Nautilus 3.4.2

[Dario Ruellan (druellan)]

I'm promoting this as a papercut. The solution seems complex, but meanwhile, the actual labeling of those options is misleading, and can be improved.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.