Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus Impressions

[Jason Tackaberry <tack linux com>]

> as I open more nautilus windows. Basically things are very slow with nautilus
> running, I don't know how you expect a common user to tolerate this kind
> of slow down.

I have a Dual PIII-900, 384MB RAM, a GeForce 2 GTS 64MB, and Nautilus is
quite slow for me as well.  Not intolerable, mind you, but definitely
frustrating considering I'm not used to waiting very long on that system.

It's also quite slow at generating thumbnails.  A test ran on my work
system (a much more modest system than above) shows that Nautilus takes
60 seconds to process 43 images (each around 300k), while GQview 0.9.1
takes 24 seconds.  (GQview is generating 100x100 thumbnails while
Nautilus generates 105x73.)   While I'm on the topic of thumbnails, I'd
also like to suggest that images that are in the current view in
Nautilus should have their thumbnails generated before others.  GQview
does this, and it improves the perception of responsiveness quite a bit.
So for example, if I open a directory with 400 images and scroll to the
middle, move those images that I can see to the top of the thumbnail
generation queue.  Also, when I leave a directory that is still churning
in the background generating thumbnails, it should stop generating those
thumbnails unless I return to that directory.

Also, as you have pointed out, basic performance is quite poor.  It
takes long enough to open a new window that I try to avoid doing that
whenever possible.  

Naturally I can most of the bells and whistles off to improve
performance.  But I can do basic file management infinitely faster with
a shell, so the bells and whistles are the reason I would use a file
manager.  I sure hope the Nautilus team has some optimization tricks up
their collective sleeves.  Nautilus is slick, and I'd like to want to
use it. :)

Cheers,
Jason.