Public bug reported:
Wile thumbnails can be helpful and cute, they can also pose a privacy
issue. (Parents can use it to spy on their kids damaging the privacy at
a very early stage)
Also when a folder has a lot of files then the tumbnailer gobbles up
performance at a moment when you need the performance to simply get your
work done. and thumbnails popping up, refreshing the entire folder
thumbnail after thumbnail... It kinda sucks when you are browsing for a
file to edit a tutorial...
Maybe just limit the thumbnail functionality to /Videos /Documents and
/Pictures with an option for users to add more locations.
But for privacy reasons I would personally prefer to have this option turner
OFF by default.
And if LXDE's focus is on Lightweight performance then it also makes sense to
turn it OFF by default.
And maybe make a /.thumbnails inside the folder that the thumbnails
belong to, so that the thumbnails will be deleted when a older is
deleted, cleaning up the thumbnails instead of having a bag of rusty old
nails in one bucket.
Thumbnails are not bad, but the way they are implemented might be
improved a bit.
It's not a security issue but it is a privacy issue. Maibe if
/.thumbnails makes shots of potential confidential .doc or .pdf that it
still may bea security issue?
** Affects: lubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: privacy
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PCmanfm thumbnails cpu-load and privacy
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