~/.thumbnails - The Creepiest Directory

[steevven1]

Apparently, Ubuntu (and Xubuntu) keep copies of all thumbnails ever loaded, cached in ~/.thumbnails. To me, this is creepy and can be bad from a security standpoint.

Is there any way to have all thumbnails loaded on-the-fly, but not to have them ever cached on disk?

I tried symlinking ~/.thumbnails to /dev/null, but this disabled thumbnails entirely.

[SoFl W]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1214857

[steevven1]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1214857

The solution offered by StuartN in that thread seems to fix the problem in GNOME, but how can I do it in Xfce (Xubuntu)?

Thanks

[CatKiller]

You could make ~/.thumbnails read-only. I think that still works.

EDIT: Actually, I think Xubuntu still uses GConf anyway. I could be wrong, it's a long time since I used it.

Edit 2: Or you could do this to have a script that runs on logout that empties the ~/.thumbnails directory.