Re: GWorkspace - thumbnail service problems

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Charles Philip Chan wrote:
> Strange I have no problems displaying thumbnails (I am on Linux
> X86_64). However, if the directory contains a large amount of file
> generation of thumbnails will fail with "Timeout connecting to Thumbnail
> Service"- I have to do it in batches. BTW, my GNUstep is the latest svn
> version.
Indeed, it appears that the thumbnail service is called synchronously.. 
that is stupid, it should just go asynchronously. I never looked at how 
the service work.
I also think that perhaps all this "daemon" thing that remains there is 
overkill, why not just launch and then quit?
Perhaps it is thought that several thumbnailers could run concurrently 
in the daemon.. but this has no use anyway, because the "call" to the 
servce is blocking.

> forgot got to add, do you have "Use Thumbnails" enabled under "Icons" in
> the Preferences panel?
That was it, btw, the preference was unset, perhaps I reset preferences 
or something like that.

Riccardo