Comment 1 for bug 640785

I have discovered that the behavior of this bug is slightly different than I wrote in the description. This I realized after messing around with nautilus' settings just a few minutes ago.

The file size limit IS respected after all. The problem is the _wording_ of the setting in the preferences dialog: The setting seems to govern whether thumbnails are _generated_ or not. If they have already been generated for a file, and the file size limit is set to a lower value, the thumbnail will still show. Since the thumbnail is already generated, there is no extra processing necessary, which explains the behavior. Files which have not had their thumbnail generated will not be available for preview (i.e. there is no thumbnail for them).

The setting is phrased as "Show thumbnails:", which makes the behavior incorrect. The setting should maybe be worded using the word "generated" instead.

NOTE: I have not experimented any with how sound files are previewed for different values of this setting.