Re: History/bookmarks preview (and some craziness)

["Diego Escalante" <diego aureal com pe>]

Hi

On 12/11/06, Michael V. De Palatis <mvd gatech edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:32:13AM -0500, Diego Escalante wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I was sitting here reading the wiki[1] and just remembered that
> > thumbnailing for websites is a feature request getting rotten[2].
> > Now, I also read suggestions to use the f-spot navigation widget[3]
> > which I think is total crack and would make Ephy so BLING BLING that
> > it would easily become a killer app.
>
> Just a general question about all this: How much overhead would this
> add? I think that this could be a neat feature, but I worry that this
> might possibly make memory usage go up considerably, which is a Bad
> Thing(TM) if there does not exist an option to turn this feature
> on/off. As it stands, one of the main things I like about Epiphany is
> its minimalism, and this would be a feature that would take away from
> that a bit.
Yes, turning it on/off would be as easy as selecting
"View>Thumbnails". This wouldn't be the default, the default would be
"View>List".
So everybody is safe :).

> Don't get me wrong, I would probably use the feature (at least on my
> desktop) since I don't really have a memory issue, but I think it
> would be good to keep up on the lower memory usage in Epiphany versus
> Firefox (Disclaimer: The last statement is based only on personal
> experience... I haven't really seen any real data on this).
I agree with you, that's why I also agree on making this non-default
so it's used by only crack people or for BLING BLING demos/configs.
We shouldn't eat a lot of memory doing this, thumbnails could be
created on demand and cached as favicons as cached now. That way after
2 or 3 visits to history or bookmark manager, we would have no need to
process anything except for sorting.
Now that I think about it, maybe this should be enabled only for
history (where you need a hint sometimes) because bookmarks are
already known to you.

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> Michael V. De Palatis
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