Re: Possible speed enhancement

["Milosz Derezynski" <internalerror gmail com>]

Yes that's true, i was actually thinking of FileChooser when i wrote
that; I will repost (a more
comprehensive) proposal to gtk-devel list.

2008/10/6 Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>:
> On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 15:35 +0200, Milosz Derezynski wrote:
>> Allright, good tip, thanks.
>>
>> One other thing that occured to me is that it would be possible to
>> list files very quickly without checking the type,
>> and then (in a thread) read the types and display the according icons
>> (or generally the thumbnails).
>>
>> I'm not sure how far this is off from something that could get
>> accepted. What does everyone think about this?
>
> It sounds good in theory, but in practice it doesn't really speed
> anything up, because as you read in the file types after the fact things
> flash around and change a lot, sometimes being re-sorted or just
> re-drawn. You also cannot e.g. open file or do other per-type operations
> until the type is read. Its generally hard to use the UI while all this
> is happening, so users just wait until its done. This means all the
> complexity in getting this to work just wastes time.
>
>



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