Re: Recently Used Files Proposal

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi,

On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 01:34 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> writes:
> 
> >> Sorry, but what are the latency reasons involved here?
> >
> > Parsing could be an issue on older machines - even if XML parsing has
> > become way more efficient.  What I was referring to was the check on
> > non-local items: this is currently what takes most of the time when
> > loading the recently used files with the recent-files code, for
> > instance.  We should keep this issue in mind: some of the files might
> > reside on non-local volumes.
> 
> I don't think that parsing the XML will be an issue and there are ways
> to work around the problem of non-local items. The file doesn't need
> to be touched in any way until the associated item is actually visible
> in the treeview. Stating the file and querying the MIME type could be
> done asynchronously from a thread.

The indication for the MIME type could be mandatory for recently used
items: if I'm writing an application, I should already know what MIME
type I'm using.  This would cut down the request for the MIME type.

As for non local items, we need a way to tell the user "hey, this item
is not on your system, so the information we are display could be
outdated"; as I said, an emblem could be useful - as we already show
network volumes.

Kind regards,
 Emmanuele.

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