I'm about to let my N900 go because of thumbnailer daemon
 

I know nobody cares, but Nokia should: fire the programmer responsible for N900s tracking/indexing daemons.. it unacceptable to have my cell not responding because of some stupid thumbnailer makings thumbs of what it already did 9999 times before! What a lame algorithm/implementation! It fires my battery life and usability for what!?
N900 could be the best, but there little stupid things that makes it the best one day and the worst the other...

Android is no prize either, but its more constant...
Hope Meego will be less amateur..

Re: I'm about to let my N900 go because of thumbnailer daemon
 

and yeah, I tried tracker-cfg and stuff, but still having lags or malfunction.. it should work from factory, a it is a very simple thing..

Re: I'm about to let my N900 go because of thumbnailer daemon
 

agree with you. to give us a beta device and then tell users that we should 'file a bug' for their bad work is unacceptable.

Re: I'm about to let my N900 go because of thumbnailer daemon
 

And thus easy to solve, isn't it? I don't think this phone should be sold to masses anyway, and for that reason I'd say fix it yourself if you dislike it and already know it's a simple thing.

Re: I'm about to let my N900 go because of thumbnailer daemon
 

Although I understand you're annoyed at him saying 'it's a simple thing', I think the proper comparison is with other media devices in the market. I don't think any other devices (other than past NITs) have such indexing issues.

Re: I'm about to let my N900 go because of thumbnailer daemon
 

Agree with you there, ysss, but also no other device is so not-suitable for the mass market. The way I look at it: You get some pretty decent hardware, with some pretty decent OS and after that it's up to the user if he bumps into problems. At least, that's the background thought I had when I bought the machine. And so far, I'm loving it.

So: It's not an annoyance that he says it's a simple thing to do right, it's an annoyance that he complains about it while he should've solved it, one way or another, id est, if it really is that simple an issue as he claims.

I use tracker-cfg and it works reasonably well, allowing me to hide folders from the tracker and such things from a GUI.

Slightly OT: Wasn't the improved indexer one of the selling points for Vista at the time?

Re: I'm about to let my N900 go because of thumbnailer daemon
 

What will i destroy if i delete thumbnailer daemon? I hate it too.

Re: I'm about to let my N900 go because of thumbnailer daemon
 

Nothing I think.
You can remove (or better rename) thumbnailer daemon.
You will not see image thumbnails anymore.
But the best you can do maybe is create some scripts to launch image-viewer and file manager launchers and run this daemon before start, and kill the process when you close those programs. Then modify the .desktop launchers to run those scripts.
I didn't try this but I think it's possible

Re: I'm about to let my N900 go because of thumbnailer daemon
 

Maybe what he is saying is that it should have been something simple for Nokia to fix since no other device has such issues. He does not mean simple so he should be the one to fix it. After all it is not like Nokia was giving this thing away for free to developers only. People actually paid a lot of money for the N900.

Re: I'm about to let my N900 go because of thumbnailer daemon
 

It is OK with me to file bug reports. But it was annoying that a separate account was required, different legal characters for user name, and excruciatingly slow and unresponsive web site to register a bug reporting account.

Then after all those hurdles, it was discouraging to see all the WONTFIX (just because) and fixed in Harmattan (next device when n900 was just out the door!). And most of those can not be fixed by the community because of closed source.