Re: [orca-list] Nautilus slowness

[Dave Hunt <ka1cey gmail com>]

I experimented with pcmanfm for a bit,  and found that only the detailed 
list view is accessible, though, it is fast!  Have you tried different 
views in Nautilus?  I think we are all agreed that Nautilus, in Ubuntu 
12.04, is slower than past versions.



Cheers,



Dave





On 05/08/2012 01:10 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:
> 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
>
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