[Thunar-dev] Slow media

[Benedikt Meurer]

Johannes Zellner wrote:
> Hm I don't know much of such stuff, but wouldn't it be possible to make 
> a behaviour like xmms-playlist :-)
> loading the plain filenames like
> 
>>That's just
>>
>> d = opendir();
>> while (readdir(d)) {...}
>> closedir(d);
>>
>>that can be done within a few microseconds (from warm cache) depending 
>>on the directory size.
>> 
>>
> 
> and then read the mime-types after this period, depending on the shown 
> files.
> Because in big directories, I mostly search a while for the needed file, 
> so the user can search for filenames, while Thunar is loading mime-stuff.
> 
> Just und idea :-D

That's what we do right now. But this doesn't work properly with the 
details view, as you need to know the MIME-type comment to laid out the 
corresponding tree view column, and therefore you need to determine all 
MIME types anyways to complete the GtkTreeViews size allocation.

I guess I'll try to do the loading of local folders asynchronously and 
ditch the file cache (which currently causes most of the problems with 
thread-safetly). But that means, libexo (atleast ExoMimeInfo and 
ExoMimeDatabase) needs to be thread-safe as well. And it means that 
we'll depend on GObject 2.8 or better.

> Johannes

Benedikt