Re: [Nautilus-list] hidden files bug

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Tuesday, June 12, 2001, at 03:26  PM, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote:

> I, for one, believe this could be the issue making home directory
> loading slower than other directory for a simple reason :
>
> The cost of the Gnome VFS callback is nothing, but the icon are
> only discarded at drawing time.
>
> As we only draw by group of file, this introduce latency (first
> files listed are hidden file). So you don't see anything happening
> (I mean drawn) until the whole list of hidden file was walked throught.
>
> what do you think ?

I think you're wrong. I think you should prove that I'm wrong and then 
show me the proof.

> > Older versions of Nautilus did filter out hidden files earlier, and
> > this led to a bug where if you renamed a file to a hidden name, it
> > would stay forever with the non-hidden name, because the name change
> > would not be reported to the directory view.
>
> What about introducing a special case for this bug,
> and revert to the old behavior ? That seem saner to me.

I think it's very difficult to do that. You are welcome to try, but I 
think it's a waste of time.

    -- Darin