Prevent Nautilus from thumbnailing FUSE filesystems
Been writing a FUSE filesystem (for Microsoft Onedrive) and things seem to be going pretty well. One big hold up however is that Nautilus does not recognize FUSE filesystems as a "remote filesystem" and will attempt to open and thumbnail every single file in the currently mounted filesystem. This quickly becomes a major issue for remote filesystems where opening a file causes the remote file to be downloaded (basically opening a directory in Nautilus causes the entire remote directory to be downloaded). This is an issue for other FUSE filesystems as well, not just my one (see https://askubuntu.com/questions/84453/prevent-nautilus-from-displaying-thumbnails-on-a-specific-mount for another person running into the same issue).
Though its possible to disable thumbnailing entirely for all files, this is obviously undesirable (since it degrades the user experience for all files and not just a single mount).
Some potential resolutions to this issue:
- Do not thumbnail FUSE filesystems by default.
- Have some documented way of instructing Nautilus that a directory contains a remote filesystem and is not to be thumbnailed (like a
.no_thumbnailers
file in the directory root or something). - Point me in the direction of the above functionality if it exists already (I've done some pretty comprehensive googling and I don't believe this is the case, but would be happy to find out otherwise.)