Re: Suggestion for file type detection approach

[James Su <suzhe turbolinux com cn>]

But why I can not feel that? Every time I open a directory, all files 
are showed together. If I open a directory contains large amount of 
files, nautilus becomes very slow.

And is there any MIME cache in nautilus or gnome-vfs? When I enter a 
directory the second time, the speed is as slow as the first time. But 
it should be faster.

Regards
James Su

Charles Goodwin дµÀ:
> On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 01:32, James Su wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to implement the file type detection and thumbnail 
> > generation method in a progressive manner? Just like what gthumb does.
>
>
> This is what Nautilus does currently, hence I'm a little perplexed at
> people's complaints of Nautilus 'locking'.  I don't seem to have a
> problem with it.  Indeed, just now whilst browsing my music folders,
> Nautilus was fine traversing directories whether it had finished
> thumbnailing or not (most of the thumbnailing was near-instant) even
> though it was playing second-class-cpu-citizen to rhythmbox and I was
> compiling something in the background.  And my machine is quite lowly by
> todays standards (733/256).
>
> There is _always_ room for improvement.  But I do think that it is
> getting pretty good as it is with Nautilus and that using file
> extensions is a dangerous if not naive path to go down.  I'd much rather
> see the use of the meta-data which all future filesystems will support
> and some now support.  I honestly haven't seen any decent argument for
> file extensions - just some rather subjective statements.  You'll have
> to do a lot better to convince the people hacking on Nautilus.
>
> - Charlie