I use stock Ubuntu 20.04.2 with the Gnome 3.36.8 desktop (according to gnome-control-center's About tab).
Nautilus version: 3.36.3
Dismay:
I have a hard time organizing my photos in Nautilus, because the largest possible image thumbnail setting results in thumbnails displayed at an effective 164px width. (All the while the actual thumbnail .png files, in ~/.cache/thumbnails/large/
, are still being saved with the more sensible, earlier default 256px width. Yet someone decided that at display time, they need to be shrinked to 164px.)
I have found questions about enlarging Nautilus thumbnails:
- How to get bigger photos' thumbnails in Nautilus?
- recommends using alternative file manager
- Nautilus: Show image thumbnails at more than 200% size
- the gsettings way does not work any more
- there is no
org.gnome.nautilus.icon-view thumbnail-size
any more - even if it doesn't appear, probably it's set to 256px anyways, that's why actual thumbnail .png's in
~/.cache
are that wide; the resizing happens on the frontend, at display time
- there is no
- also recommends switching to alternate desktop
- the gsettings way does not work any more
My use-case:
- Right now I'm not ready to switch desktops / to reinstall.
- I have already invested 3 months of my life into making my Gnome desktop usable, at a very critical part of my life where I desperately should be focusing on other (real-life) challenges already.
- I have only 19GB left on my
/
partition, I would be happy if I would not need to fill it up to the brim.
While I use Gthumb, I find it less than optimal for file-manager-related tasks (moving files about); at the same time I don't want to use Shotwell, because it's very inflexible (thanks to its "import" procedure).
The recommended alternative file managers all seem to pull in their entire corresponding desktops:
- Caja: MATE desktop
- Nemo: Cinnamon desktop
- Thunar: XFCE desktop
This seems to be a huge overhead and therefore an inefficient solution.
Question:
Is there an efficient way for me to enjoy 256px wide thumbnails in a decent file manager with a decent image viewer app integration?
(If you are going to suggest building Nautilus from source, I will need an ELI5 walkaround of that, because I have never in my life built anything from source.)