Contributor XerxesXS

In Nautilus, there is an option to view thumbnails of images. This is all very well for the default size icons for thumbnails.

However, if the thumbnail is made larger using the "stretch icon" function in Nautilus, the icon remains at the same resolution, making it appear blurry and pixelated.

Would it be possible to scale the preview of the image directly to the size of the displayed thumbnail?

EDIT: On Hardy there appears to be a big problem in that the images are regenerated each time the folder is opened, leading to large delays and higher system load whilst they are being generated. Navigation away from the folder results in the generated images being lost.

When I came to mounting directories from an XP computer (although any windows this should be applicable) using SAMBA server at startup (similar to "map network drive" in windows) I found that this is relatively cryptic to do, with no warnings or messages to state that the mounting had failed.

Upon googling, I found that this is as for SAMBA to be able to mount using the SMB FS, the mounts need to be added to FSTAB with a lot of UID codes.

ie:

//Server/MountName /MountPoint smbfs credentials=/home/Username/.smbcredentials,uid=Username,gid=users 0 0

For the average user, this seems to be a little haphazard and many will not want to edit FSTAB nor know how to do this

Additionally, the user seems to need to be in the sudoers file.

I propose some sort of SAMBA addon GUI that will allow for automatic updating of FSTAB to this purpose; Perhaps a Nautilus shell script with something similar to the "Map Network Drive..." option in windows, when navigating the Network with Nautilus.

On my current setup, I have mount points that are automatically mounted at boot that point to networked shares. This uses SAMBA as the files are hosted on an XP computer.

However, if this computer loses it's network connection or is turned off, Nautilus appears to crash and hang for a (seemingly) random amount of time. After a while, I can interact with it again, however it appears that the desktop is no longer updated or possible to be interacted with.

This may be due to the fact that the mount point cannot be resolved as soon as the computer is no longer accessible (Timeout errors, etc), however this is highly frustrating as it renders the computer fairly stunted whilst it attempts to recover.

I propose some sort of workaround that will prevent this from happening; Windows appears to have no problem with a network "share" from being removed, and even gives the user a popup message that states "X:/Share is no longer available", or a message to that effect. Something that popped up in Nautilus would be ideal.