Making nautilus faster with large directories

[William Lovaton <walovaton yahoo com mx>]

Now that nautilus has received lots of love, may be it's a good time to
propose another improvement: Make it faster with directories that have a
large number of files in it.  Specially the files that could use
thumbnailing like images, video, etc.

I sent this mail to nautilus-list proposing an optimization that should
make the situation a lot better but got no answer:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2004-November/msg00074.html

This should be considered for 2.10.  Any thoughts?


-William