Nautilus WMF file view memory loss

Bug #121364 reported by nrdb
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Using Nautilus 2.14.3 on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, when viewing a large directory of .WMF vector graphic files (from a CD). The Icon view showed a preview of the graphic files as expected.

I had the "System Monitor" open on the resources tab.

The memory usage went up, but when I closed the Nautilus window the memory usage didn't go down.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. Does it happen every time, could you attach the file triggering the bug?

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assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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nrdb (nrdb01) wrote :

Yes it happens every time, it doesn't seem to matter what file you use.
I have attached a file, I did a test with.
1) copy to an empty directory,
2) duplicate a few dosen times (I did 30)
3) Open the 'stystem monitor' to the resources tab
4) Using nautilus open the directory, you should see a each file previewed.
5) Close nautilus
6) Notice the memory usage went up, but not down

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Could you run gconf-editor and look what value is set to /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/image@x-wmf/command

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nrdb (nrdb01) wrote : Re: [Bug 121364] Re: Nautilus WMF file view memory loss

Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Could you run gconf-editor and look what value is set to
> /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/image@x-wmf/command
>

There isn't one, I have.
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lots of application@, one audio@, two image@, lots of video@.

nothing under /desktop/gnome/thumbneailers containing wmf.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Could you look in gnome-system-monitor what is running to generate the image?

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nrdb (nrdb01) wrote :

I tried to find out what is used to generate the images but couldn't find it.

I used the gnome-system-monitor but could see anything in it.

I tried running the command
$ ps -AF | grep -i wmf -
while it was loading the directory, but it returned nothing usefull

I also tried the command
$ ps -AF > /tmp/ps.txt
while it was loading a different directory. When I looked at the file I could see nothing to indicate an image loader, maybe you can see something I have attacted the file.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Nothing is running there doing the thumbnail and there is no image for your example on my gutsy installation, you have probably installed something doing the previous which is not part of the standard installation

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status: Incomplete → New
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fjgaude (tanzen) wrote :

Well, neither Nautilus nor gThumb render WMF files in Gutsy. They did in Feisty and still do. There must be a plug-in somewhere that is left out of Gutsy that is in Feisty. Please fix. And thanks for a great OS.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

I tried recreating this using Feisty and I did not see a preview image for the WMF file contained in this bug report.

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fjgaude (tanzen) wrote :

Thanks for responding, Brian... I use WMFs all the time and it is a pain
to not have anything in Feisty or Gutsy be able to read them. See the
sample wmf attached to use as reference. It's a simple, non-complex design.

Please fix this bug. I know there is a plug-in somewhere for Nautilus
and gThumb. It was in Edgy.

Regards,
Frank
fjgaude

Brian Murray wrote:
> I tried recreating this using Feisty and I did not see a preview image
> for the WMF file contained in this bug report.
>
>

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fjgaude (tanzen) wrote :

Here's a WMF to work with.
frank

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

could you try if that's still an issue in hardy?

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status: New → Incomplete
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fjgaude (tanzen) wrote :

No, nothing has changed... no WMF support in Hardy... just make sure I have all the latest updates to 8.04. Neither gThumb nor Nautilus can find a viewer for this type of graphic file. Please keep trying to fix this area. Thanks!

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

that's a different issue than the one described there

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fjgaude (tanzen) wrote :

When I click on a WMF file I get an error msg: "There is no application installed for this file type"; I don't see any change in memory usage because the wmf file was not loaded.

GIMP will load and view wmf files but I don't see anything unusual regarding memory usage.

How does one view wmf files these days?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug is about ressource use to display wmf, that's not a nautilus issue, having other applications opening this format is not a nautilus issue either and a different bug, you should open a bug against the application that should open those, closing this one since nautilus works correctly

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fjgaude (tanzen) wrote :

well, Nautilus doesn't show the thumbnail icos its window display. The error comes when I click on the dummy thumbnail. I would think that Nautilus should point to a viewer. It did in Edgy, or Feisty, not in Gutsy or Hardy.

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