Re: [Nautilus-list] slow redraw behaviour

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Thomas Cataldo <tomc compaqnet fr> writes:
> 
> When I open two nautilus windows, and move one of them rapidly, the 2
> windows and the desktop are redrawing very slowly, but the other gtk
> windows like evolution on the same desktop have no problem.
> 
> I think that the problem is that all the 3 windows (desktop + 2 nautilus
> windows) are repainting in the same thread. Is this a fixable issue or
> do we have to wait for gtk 2 to have one gmainloop for each window ?
> 
> Could something like pthread_create(&thread, 0, gtk_main, 0); fix this
> thing with gtk 1 ? If you think this is possible, I will be happy to
> look at it.

I don't think it has anything to do with threading (in any case there
is no way to do repaints from multiple threads at once, gtk doesn't do
that). The issue is just "it redraws too slowly" ;-)

So, profile and optimize, profile and optimize...

Havoc