Re: A tale of waiting

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Benjamin Otte<otte gnome org> wrote:

>
> So it seems content-type sniffing incurs a 20% penalty for
> g_file_query_info() if it takes the fast path, and is devastating if
> it doesn't. Both of that is not nice and it'd be nice if populating
> the file chooser would not be blocked by it, but it seems in most
> cases it's not noticable. So I can just add the content-type back to
> the file chooser and have one problem less to think about.

Yeah, doing mime type detection async in parallel to the loading has
some downsides too. It is somewhat disconcerting if the icons change
after the fact...


> So I guess I will
> a) file a bug about updating glib's qsort implementation

Here is one: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113203