[Thunar-dev] Slow media

[Wit Wilinski]

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 00:13:11 +0200
Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:

> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> > While testing some volume manager related stuff, I tried to load a large 
> > folder from a CD-ROM (the i386 folder from one of my more or less unused 
> > Windows 2000 install CDs, which contains about 4000 files) into the tree 
> > view and it took forever, even after the folder content was visible (I 
> > suspect this is GtkTreeView loading icon data for the invisible items, 
> > tho haven't checked yet). And of course, since currently everything runs 
> > in the main thread, the GUI was blocked.
> 
> Ok, just checked with other file managers (Nautilus, ROX, Xffm), and 
> this directory is not fun to load with any of them either. The problem 
> is that the file extensions are b0rked (name.xx_) and so the MIME code 
> has to open every single file, just to realize that it's only "garbage" 
> (application/octect-stream).
> 
I have even a worse example: try to open /usr/bin in gtk+ file open dialog -- this one takes ages. Comparing to kde file open dialog = tragedy. Kde implemented lazy loading, and gui is still accessible while loading items

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