Re: Images in a directory

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 11:24 +0100, Jamf wrote:
> Hello, my name is Juan Angel and I'm spanish gnome user.
> My english is not as good as i want, sorry for that.
> I have a pair of questions:
> 
> - Why Nautilus don't have progresive loading of images?
> When you enter a directory with jpg's, png's or other Nautilus is 
> stopped until all the images has been loaded. If you have a lot of 
> images in that directory, Nautilus block your work until it is ready 
> with all the images.

All thumbnailing is done in a thread and all image loading is done
async, so the main thread should not be blocked. And it isn't for me.

> - Why Nautilus don't allow us to open the directory-menu when is needed?
> It seem that Nautilus have diferents right-mouse-button menus depending 
> on where you push the button. If you push over a file, the menu is 
> file-menu, if you push in a blank space the menu is directory-menu, but 
> when you don't have black space you can't open the directory-menu. If 
> you are in list view mode with lot of files and you want to create a 
> directory, the only way to do that is by the Nautilus main menu.

I supposed you mean in the list view. Yes, the directory context menu is
a bit tricky here. The main menu operations work though, so its not a
severe problem.

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