Re: Performance ideas (resend) ...

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Matthias Clasen
<matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:

>
> Possible fixes:
>
> - Use a private GConf client+engine instance instead of using the
> default one (not sure if this is possible...)
>
> - Change the thumbnail api to be async, so that we can defer any gconf
> calls to an idle running in the main thread. We can cache the result
> of the gconf lookup, so only the very first call for each mime type
> would be deferred to an idle.
>

Of course, there is also the very lo-tech:

- Delay creating the thumbnailing thread in nautilus until we are,
say, 30 seconds into the session