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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Removing "other office" thumbnails
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2003-11-29 18:50:12
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On Saturday 29 November 2003 10:33, Thomas Zander wrote:
> Does that also fix the problem then when I have a .csv in my dir kspread
> opens a dialog asking me the table formatting?  Very annoying when browsing
> a dir.

Yes. Is there a bug number?

>
> I think there are a couple of problems here, I doubt the buggy filters are
> to be blamed.
> 1) konqueror should do some load managing of thumbnail generation; I have
> seen postscrip thumbnail generation cause the same problems.

> 2) when a file fails to generate, for any reason at all, konq should
> register that and not retry the next time you enter the folder.

Yes, I think that this is the biggest problem. Has anybody reported it to KDE 
Bugs yet?

> 3) filters should by default be started in an environment that has no X
> connection so popups and dialogs _can_ not appear.

Well, we had planned a batch mode for the filters. It is one of the things 
that nobody had the time to do for KOffice 1.3. :-(

>
>
> Disabling the .desktop file seems like a good idea; but it does not really
> solve the problem, it works around it.

Yes too, unfortunately.

>
> David; I hope that if you think the above is new and worthy for the
> konqueror hackers that you can forward it to them :)

Have a nice day!

>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 09:31:42PM +0100, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > On Friday 28 November 2003 12:48, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > > To work around bug#55657 (and its duplicate #59377), I propose to
> > > remove the file koffice/tools/thumbnail/otherofficethumbnail.desktop
> >
> > Bug 61885 will be fixed too.
> >
> > > The main problem of the "other office" thumbnails is that it is based
> > > on the filters. As our filters are far from bug-free, the problems of
> > > the filters are given here very raw, without having any chance not to
> > > do it. (When you know that a file crashes a filter, you do not load it,
> > > but the thumbnail will still be created. :-(   )

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