Re: [PATCH] Add more nautilus_file..._nocopy variants

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 19:49 +0100, Christian Neumair wrote:
> I hoped to significantly speed up Nautilus by caching each
> NautilusFile's URI and exposing API for getting cached file info.

I'm putting the work on file chooser optimization on hold until Kris
commits his async API changes for GtkFileSystem.

In the meantime, let's find out why Nautilus is slow :)

One big problem I found with the file chooser is that it is hard to know
when it is *really* done loading a folder and done displaying it.  Does
Nautilus have a place where it knows it is done loading?

I remember adding a patch at some point to gdk_beep() when a directory
was done loading, but this did not take into account the code that
actually displays the icon view/list view.  I don't know if once the
directory is loaded, Nautilus has another async layer to populate the
views and lay them out.

[Hans Petter and I were playing with Windows XP the other day - their
file manager is mightily fast...]

  Federico