Re: Clist item max size

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Liam Quin <liam holoweb net> writes: 
> Most toolkits seemto be slow at inserting thousands of items into a
> list or tree widget.  It can also help if you only freeze ufter
> the first 100 items or so, and then unfreeze briefly every few
> thousanditems in the meantime, so that the user sees the first screen
> appear quickly and the scrollbar grow, and perhaps has access to a
> "stop" button.

The best solution is the GtkTreeView one - have pluggable models, so
data can simply be kept in-place instead of "stuffing" it into the
list.

Havoc