Bug 501016 - Desktop images don't refresh their thumbnails immediately after being overwritten using GIMP's "File > Overwrite" command
Summary: Desktop images don't refresh their thumbnails immediately after being overwri...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Desktop icons & Folder View widget (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.3.2
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Blocks: 522957
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Reported: 2025-03-03 18:34 UTC by Fernando Marcelino Muniz
Modified: 2026-07-12 17:52 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Also Spectacle's screenshots only have 10% of their thumbnails rendered until F5 is pressed or a new file appears there. (14.54 KB, image/png)
2025-03-06 00:59 UTC, Fernando Marcelino Muniz
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Also Spectacle's screenshots only have 10% of their thumbnails rendered until F5 is pressed or a new file appears there. (3.86 MB, video/mp4)
2026-07-12 17:52 UTC, Fernando Marcelino Muniz
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Description Fernando Marcelino Muniz 2025-03-03 18:34:15 UTC
1- Have an image on your Desktop area.
2- Edit it on GIMP.
3- Overwrite the image with GIMP's edited version.

Result:
The thumbnail/miniature of the image is still the old one until F5 is pressed. Sometimes affects the file picker.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-03-05 18:25:26 UTC
In step 3, how are you overwriting the file? Using GIMP's "File > Overwrite" Menu item? Or something else?
Comment 2 Fernando Marcelino Muniz 2025-03-05 18:56:40 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> In step 3, how are you overwriting the file? Using GIMP's "File > Overwrite"
> Menu item? Or something else?

The former.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-03-05 21:25:53 UTC
I can reproduce that.
Comment 4 Fernando Marcelino Muniz 2025-03-06 00:59:19 UTC
Created attachment 179164 [details]
Also Spectacle's screenshots only have 10% of their thumbnails rendered until F5 is pressed or a new file appears there.

I believe it's the same issue.
Comment 5 Fernando Marcelino Muniz 2025-04-29 08:15:10 UTC
This issue seems to also affect the Properties window, it shows incorrect info until the desktop is refreshed.
Comment 6 Fernando Marcelino Muniz 2025-05-12 20:21:16 UTC
I've save an image on Desktop with Gimp while having Kdenlive (Flatpak) already opened, then I clicked on "Add clip on folder", it loaded on the Desktop and the image wasn't there.
Turns out that the File Picker also has that issue, it's just rarer because it needs to launch showing that folder by default.
Comment 7 Fernando Marcelino Muniz 2026-02-06 07:46:38 UTC
They also don't refresh when the thumbnail of a folder is supposed to change due to its contents being deleted:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507079#c8
Comment 8 Fernando Marcelino Muniz 2026-07-12 17:52:02 UTC
Created attachment 194246 [details]
Also Spectacle's screenshots only have 10% of their thumbnails rendered until F5 is pressed or a new file appears there.