Re: [orca-list] Nautilus slowness

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi,

Yeah, Nautilus has always been a bit on the slow side, but I believe the 
version that ships with Ubuntu 12 is worse than ever. Especially, if I 
open a Music directory with say 100 subdirectories in it. It takes up to 
two complete minutes for Nautilus to display the contents. That's just 
ridiculous. As much as I hate to compare Linux to Windows there is a 
case to be made here that Windows Explorer doesn't take nearly as long 
as Nautilus to open and display a large directory of files and there is 
obviously something wrong with Nautilus to be twice as slow to perform 
the same action on the same exact directory. You would think the 
Nautilus developers would have noticed this drastic difference in 
performance between file managers and have tried to do something about 
it. I wonder how KDE's file manager and Xfce's file manager do in 
comparison?

Cheers!

On 5/8/2012 12:29 PM, Fernando H. F. Botelho wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In my experience Nautilus has always been unacceptably slow. You can 
> save some time setting up bookmarks to often-used folders, but it is a 
> suboptimal solution.
>
> A sighted friend told me that for folders with many files, he can 
> visually see how slow Nautilus is. So I am not sure that this is an 
> Orca-specific problem.
>
> The good news is, if anybody knows who to contact at Nautilus, 
> speeding it up would be good for everyone, sighted and blind.
>
> Best,
>
> Fernando