On Sunday, January 19, 2014, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: > > > > On 19 January 2014 11:33, Adam Dingle <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, > 'cvml', '[email protected]');> > > wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 1:29 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad < >> [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> '[email protected]');>> wrote: >> >> In the Privacy settings, you can choose not to store things you do in >> Zeitgeist or you can delete entries based on time, such as delete all >> entries from the last hour. However, this does not delete associated >> thumbnails. >> >> Would it make sense that if you've chosen not to log a specific >> directory, then thumbnails also aren't saved to ~/.cache/thumbnails/ and if >> you delete past history, then the thumbnails for those files are also >> deleted from the cache? >> >> >> Yes, I think that makes sense and I agree that users would probably >> assume that this is the case already. Someone else has noticed this in >> comment 10 at this bug: >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgnomeui/+bug/94230 >> >> adam >> > > > That's interesting. Thanks for the reference. I'm not entirely sure > libgnomeui and eog are the right packages for this bug though. I'd rather > connect it to thumbnailers such as totem-thumbnailer, Unity Control Center > and possibly Zeitgeist. After all, this might be a useful feature in most > cases where Zeitgeist is used for this. > > In any case, it seems obvious to me that the thumbnailer > (totem-thumbnailer in our case) should be connected to this bug. Because if > you don't want thumbnails for a specific directory, then you certainly want > to first create them and then delete. Perhaps you might want the > thumbnailer to create the thumbnails in the specified directory and then > create links for them in ~/.cache/thumbnails/? It probably wouldn't solve > the problem entirely, but it would certainly be a step in the right > direction. > > Perhaps at a later time, folder encryption could be added, which would be > nice. > > >
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