Re: [Nautilus-list] RE: Mac Feature ----> BeOS feature

[Soeren Sonnenburg <sonnenburg informatik hu-berlin de>]

On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 18:13, David Moles wrote: 
> On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 00:19, Anne et Bertrand wrote:
> > Spring loaded folders are a very cool thing with MacOS Finder.
> > But, before using it with nautilus, opening a window in nautilus has to be 
> > much faster than it is now (even if it gets much faster than before !).
> > 
> > I've got an "old" computer (PowerMac - 180 mhz). Opening windows in 
> > nautilus-1.0.6 take several seconds (5-10 seconds for my home folder, 
> > several minutes for /usr/bin !). I can't use spring loaded folders in this 
> > way.
> 
> Excellent point.
I totally agree. Speed is the main issue with nautilus. Did someone run profiler benchmarks and recognized *where* exactly the bottleneck is ? 
> What is it that makes opening windows in Nautilus so slow, anyway?
> I've got a 1.2GHz Athlon and it still takes five seconds from
> releasing the right mouse button on "New Window" to getting a new
> window with icons in it.
On an athlon 750 with 512 mb ram and even medusa in the background it still takes ages. 
> My home directory's fairly spare, since I also use it as the desktop
> -- ten or twelve directories (though mostly with emblems), a couple
> of symlinks, three or four actual files -- that's it.
> 
> (I'm running 1.0.4, by the way.)
It's 1.0.6 here

One can see how the window opens: frame, buttons, sidebar, new background, icons.  It does not get faster when turning off all the fancy features.

Soeren.