[Nautilus-list] Re: slowness

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 17Oct2001 05:14PM (-0700), Darin Adler wrote:
> on 10/17/01 1:37 PM, Maciej Stachowiak at mjs noisehavoc org wrote:
> 
> > In particular, I think that, because the icon view will now refuse to
> > display icons for files until the custom icon and display name are
> > ready, the FMDirectoryView level chunking has been broken and many
> > files become ready to display on a "files_changed" signal that comes in
> > after the "done_loading" signal.
> 
> I think this might be the problem.
> 
> Is there any reason we can't display them with the wrong name and icon at
> first, and then change to the correct name and icon when it comes in?
> 

That's how it worked at first, and Owen strongly disapproved. It does
look a little silly for desktop links to appear first with a generic
icon, and then later with the real icon. I don;t have a very strong
opinion on which way is better.

 - Maciej