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Includes #145 (extra thumbnail size stops) plus the scroll/cache work.

Why

Grid PDF folders (blueprints over CIFS) felt frozen on fast scroll. Nautilus is not using a faster renderer — both call evince-thumbnailer. Cold Nautilus is slow too; the “zero lag” is a warm ~/.cache/thumbnails plus RAM decode cache. Flea was killing in-flight jobs on scroll, so the disk cache never filled.

What

Sizes

  • Extra large stays 128 px. XX-large 192, Huge 256 (backend already writes 256).
  • Ctrl+Alt+=/- /0 steps tile size. Ctrl+Shift+/- stays text size.

Scroll / cache

  • In-flight evince jobs finish and write large/ so the next visit is free.
  • Queued off-screen rows still drop; new visible rows go to the front of the queue.
  • Cache lookup: large/ then x-large/ then normal/.
  • Grid asks for thumbs ~16 ms after motion, not only after the 220 ms settle.

Settings (Preview, both default off)

  • Keep thumbnails in memory (preview.thumbCache)
  • Thumbnail generation Default (4 workers) / Fast (up to 8)

Test

  • cargo test --bin flea thumb
  • cargo test --bin flea uischema
  • tests/js.sh settings thumbs keymap
  • tests/budget.sh

Not run here: tests/ui.sh (needs the display).

Note

This branch contains the #145 commit. Happy to close #145 as superseded once this is reviewed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added six thumbnail size presets, including keyboard shortcuts for increasing, decreasing, and resetting thumbnail size.
    • Added Preview settings for keeping thumbnails in memory and choosing standard or fast generation.
    • Added support for larger thumbnail sizes and improved cache refresh when files change.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Thumbnail requests are now cancelled when scrolling, reducing unnecessary background work.
    • Improved handling of cancelled thumbnail generation to prevent stale results.
  • Tests
    • Expanded coverage for thumbnail sizing, settings, shortcuts, caching, and cancellation.

Extra large stays 128 px so existing ui.json does not jump. XX-large
is 192 and Huge is 256, which is the size the backend already writes.
Ctrl+Alt+=/- /0 steps that setting; Ctrl+Shift+/- remains text size.
Ctrl+scroll in the grid walks the same ladder.
A fast grid scroll through PDFs left evince children rendering pages
the user had already passed. Cancel now SIGKILLs in-flight jobs (no
fail/ marker), new asks go to the front of the queue, and contentY
drops pending thumbs the way dir-sizes already do. Grid settle is
220 ms so wheel bursts do not start a new viewport of PDFs.
Scroll no longer kills a running evince job, so the PNG lands in
large/ for the next visit. Queued off-screen rows still drop; new
visible rows still go to the front. Cache lookup also accepts
x-large and normal. Keep-in-memory and Fast generation (up to eight
workers) are Preview settings, both default off.
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Walkthrough

The change adds six thumbnail-size presets, keyboard and zoom controls, configurable thumbnail caching and worker speed, and cancellable thumbnail generation. The backend adds process cancellation, job epochs, dynamic worker limits, and lookup support for multiple thumbnail cache sizes.

Changes

Thumbnail sizing and controls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Thumbnail size controls
keys.toml, ui/js/*, ui/ViewState.qml, ui/shell.qml, ui/Pane.qml, ui/GridArea.qml, tests/js/*, tools/*
Adds six thumbnail sizes, size stepping, status announcements, Ctrl+Alt shortcuts, keymap-sheet entries, settings controls, and related tests.
Cancellable thumbnail workers
src/backend/*, ui/Backend.qml, ui/Pane.qml, ui/GridArea.qml, ui/List.qml, ui/ColumnPane.qml, ui/js/Thumbs.js, tests/js/thumbs.js
Adds cancellable child execution, epoch-based job tracking, runtime worker speed changes, and cancellation of obsolete thumbnail requests.
Thumbnail cache lookup and rendering
src/backend/thumbcache.rs, ui/ColumnRow.qml, ui/GridTile.qml, ui/Row.qml
Looks up large, x-large, and normal cache entries. Thumbnail images use the configured cache setting and modification markers.
Schema and budget validation
src/uischema.rs, tools/flea-file-budget
Adds preview defaults and validation for thumbnail size, cache, and speed settings. Updates recorded file lengths.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: thisisgm

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7960a

Rapid scrolling can start duplicate thumbnail generation for the same file, wasting worker capacity and slowing browsing. The behavior is bounded but should be corrected.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2

❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The pull request adds features that are not coding requirements in issue #145. These include optional in-memory thumbnail caching, the thumbspeed setting and worker-count control, cancellable thumbn… Move the caching, thumbnail-speed, cancellation, and queue-prioritization changes to a separate pull request with a linked issue, or add explicit coding requirements for them to the linked scope.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 24.53% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 53 functions across 18 files. (15 skipped… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title accurately summarizes the main changes: larger grid thumbnails and faster PDF browsing through thumbnail-generation improvements.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #145 requirements are implemented. ui/js/ThumbSize.js defines one ladder with xlarge at 128 px, xxlarge at 192 px, and huge at 256 px. Settings.js, ViewState.qml, grid zoom, and keyb…
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Explanation

The pull request adds features that are not coding requirements in issue #145. These include optional in-memory thumbnail caching, the thumbspeed setting and worker-count control, cancellable thumbnail child processes, and queue prioritization for faster scrolling. These changes support the separate faster-browsing objective, but the linked issue only defines larger thumbnail sizes and their controls.

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Docstring coverage is 24.53% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 53 functions across 18 files. (15 skipped: 15 unsupported.)

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In `@ui/js/Thumbs.js`:
- Around line 81-90: Update the thumbnail cancellation and scheduling flow
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run_one() so a running job’s row mapping is retained or submissions are
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  • keys.toml
  • src/backend/child.rs
  • src/backend/proto.rs
  • src/backend/run.rs
  • src/backend/state.rs
  • src/backend/thumbcache.rs
  • src/backend/thumbreq.rs
  • src/backend/thumbs.rs
  • src/uischema.rs
  • tests/acceptance-matrix.sh
  • tests/js/harness.qml
  • tests/js/keymap.js
  • tests/js/settings.js
  • tests/js/thumbs.js
  • tests/js/thumbsize.js
  • tools/flea-acceptance-drive
  • tools/flea-file-budget
  • tools/flea-keymap-gen
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  • ui/GridTile.qml
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  • ui/Row.qml
  • ui/ViewState.qml
  • ui/js/Focus.js
  • ui/js/Keymap.js
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Comment thread ui/js/Thumbs.js
Comment on lines +81 to +90
// Rows still waiting on a child. Scroll cancels these so a pause cannot leave a backlog of PDFs.
function pending(state) {
var drop = []
for (var key in state.file) {
if (state.file[key] === ASKED) {
drop.push(Number(key))
}
}
return drop
}

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Deduplicate running thumbnail jobs after scroll cancellation.

cancelPendingThumbs() removes the row mapping, while Pool::cancel() leaves a running child active. A later settle can request the same path again. queue_row() checks only st.asked, and Pool::submit() does not deduplicate its (path, epoch) jobs. run_one() also does not recheck the cache, so the second job can invoke the thumbnail generator.

Retain mappings for running jobs or deduplicate submissions by path. Preserve completion of the original job so it populates the shared cache.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@ui/js/Thumbs.js` around lines 81 - 90, Update the thumbnail cancellation and
scheduling flow around pending(), cancelPendingThumbs(), queue_row(),
Pool::submit(), and run_one() so a running job’s row mapping is retained or
submissions are deduplicated by path, preventing duplicate thumbnail generation
after scroll cancellation. Preserve completion of the original job and its
ability to populate the shared cache.

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