Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus Impressions

[Pavel Cisler <pavel eazel com>]

Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, John McCutchan wrote:
> 
> > I have a Athlon 750 Thunderbird with 128 MB's of ram. And nautils is very
> > slow at opening up a window. I don't think the average user has something
> > as fast as I do and it is probably painfully slow for them. A simple
> > stop watch test tells me it takes on average 4 seconds for my home directory
> 
> And it's not really dependent on the number of itmes in the window or
> anything. It's just painfully slow.
> 
> I have a PII-400 with 192M memory and I just tried to open a directory
> with 5 files in it. First I started nautilus in my home directory, waited
> until CPU usage went down and then dubbeclicked on the directory. It took
> 6 seconds until the window showed up but then the iterior of the window
> was all grey and after 16 seconds the 5 files showed up. And during the
> whole time my CPU meter showed 100% usage.
> 
> It's simple not usable at all, as it is now. It looks good, but we will
> have to wait maybe 3 years before the computers are fast enough for
> nautilus.
> 
> So, are there any hope of getting a faster nautilus? Are there any flags
> one can use to turn off debuging or something? I have only run prebuilt
> versions of nautilus so I don't know exactly what things where built in.
> 
> My experiense is that most projects that are slow in the beginning will
> continue being slow.  Mozilla for example could be like 50-60 times slower
> rendering some pages compared to Opera or IE. Instead of fixing that
> people are adding more features.
> 
> I'm curious to know if there are any eazel-guys that are on top of the
> speed issue and that "know" that it will be fast when this and that have
> been fixed.  Or are everybody just hacking away on their parts...
> 

Opening new windows in Nautilus currently spends a lot of time in Bonobo.
Michael is working with us at speeding the Bonobo bottlenecks and hopefuly
things will be faster before 1.0.

Pavel