User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20061201 Epiphany/2.18 Firefox/2.0.0.8 (Ubuntu-feisty) Build Identifier: This was reported on Launchpad : https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfdesktop4/+bug/157592 by : https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/~rhavenn Xubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) release - x86 minimal packages noticed on multiple PCs Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: When going into "Desktop Settings" and selecting the Finder for "selecting background image" not all the images get a "preview" image in the right side. I have a few background images (50+) and most are JPGs. Seemingly at random some will display a preview and some won't. All file perms (644) and ownership are the same for all files. This only happens if I haven't viewed the folder in Thunar. Once Thunar has generated the thumbnails then the "Desktop Background Selector" will as well. So, I'm guessing it isn't trying to create it's own thumbnails and just looking for a cache of the image?
Gauvain Pocentek tells me it must a problem with exo_gtk_file_chooser_add_thumbnail_preview() which doesn't create the thumbnails if they don't exist.
Someone else added a patch for this... Benny, looks like this is yours.
The preview window will use thumbnails if they exists. If not, it will generate a thumbnail onthefly. See exo-thumbnail.c for details. I cannot reproduce the bug here.
Well, I was able to reproduce the bug, it seems that the thumbnails aren't created everytime they should. I don't know if it's related, but we have gtk 2.12 which caused some issues concerning some xfce parts, maybe it has something to do with this issuee.
Hm, I have 2.10 here. Maybe you can try to debug the problem by inserting a few printf's in exo-thumbnail.c.
My knowledge in code is around zero, may be less... If you could provide me the exo-thumbnail.c, I would be pleased to build everything and to test it.
The same behavior here, with gtk 2.12.1. I can get a preview only for about 30% of images.
I just wanted to add that in my case it's about a Gentoo system and not Xubuntu.
I can't reproduce this anymore, is this still a problem for other people?
Long time no news, we also used the wrong signal for updating the images, so that could be related. Please re-open if anyone still has these problems.