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nautilus package

Nautilus duplicates thumbnails for files with special characters when searching

Bug #55814 reported by Jan Jansen
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Nautilus
Fix Released
Undecided
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nautilus (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

When I'm using Nautilus to browse my directories it creates thumbnails of my files, which is nice and dandy. However, when I use Ctrl+F in Nautilus to search for files, it creates new thumbnails for those files with special characters in their filenames, such as space, [] and non-ascii. The new thumbnail files have different filenames than the old thumbnail files. When I look inside the thumbnail files I find a line with URI. In the old thumbnail files spaces in the URI are encoded with "%20", while they are not encoded in this way in the new thumbnail files.

I'm using Ubuntu 6.06.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. Your issue is not clear. Do you use beagle or the standard search feature which is used when beagle is not installed? Do you have some graphical issue or to you speak about what happens technically on your disk?

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Constantine Evans (cevans) wrote :

This is a rather obscure bug, but more info is not needed. I've confirmed it with nautilus on edgy.

This is entirely in nautilus. To reproduce it, do the following:
1) Remove ~/.thumbnails
2) Create a directory with one thumbnailable file in it, that has a space in the name.
3) Go to that directory, and only that directory.
4) Use the nautilus search feature (not beagle) to search for the file name in that directory.
5) Notice that there are now two of the same thumbnail in .thumbnails/normal.

I am quite surprised that the reporter was able to notice this.

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Constantine Evans (cevans) wrote :

This occurs with my test, on edgy as well.

Changed in nautilus:
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

If that's what the submitter means that's somewhat similar to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337759 upstream

Changed in nautilus:
importance: Untriaged → Low
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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Jan, does http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337759 match what you experienced?

Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Needs Info
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Jan Jansen (pingvinklubbene) wrote :

Similar, but not the same. Generating two thumbnails for the same path is not the same as failing to identify that that two paths point to the same file.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The desktop team doesn't have the ressources to work on such details at the moment, if somebody is willing to work with upstream on that or look if they already know about the issue feel free to forward it to bugzilla.gnome.org

Changed in nautilus:
importance: Low → Wishlist
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
importance: Wishlist → Low
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the issue seems to be fixed using the current intrepid version, closing the bug, feel free to reopen if you get the issue again though

Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
status: New → Fix Released
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