Re: [orca-list] Lag when loading large lists of files

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

I use pcmanfm with xfce as well on arch, as well as unity on Vinux. 
Not having the extra dropbox functionality with nautilus is one of the few reasons I ever use nautilus on 
Ubuntu and Vinux, but haven't bothered with it on xfce. 
You can for example limit what information is shown for files, i.e. permissions, file size last modified date 
and such to the bare minimum to improve nautilus performance a bit, and don't use the side pane or what ever 
they call that, but nautilus is still a dog when it comes to large directories and I really don't know if 
this can or will ever be fixed. Caja, the mate filemanager based on nautilus is a tad faster it seems,maybe 
more than a tad, but is still not fast enough for me according to a few days of testing of mate and a few 
caja uses. PCmanfm is for sure my goto filemanager. 
Another interesting option with somewhat confusing accesability at times is midnight commander, mc which is 
basically a CLI filemanager, but does put a launcher in to Gui aps menus. 
I like MC to a point, but it takes a bit of time to fully configure to get the most out of it, and if in the 
CLI I mostly just use standard shell commands. 
HTH, 
--
Burt
 

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:05:34PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Yes, that problem still seems to be there. I wish I could find another
> file manager other than Nautilus; I know pcmanfm is around but I then
> run into other xfce dependencies which I don't want to mess with right
> now. Plus I have a Dropbox daemon which runs under Nautilus so I guess
> I'm stuck with Nautilus.
>
> As for your other question, what I do is go ahead and type whatever
> letters you want for the desired file or position in the list and then
> hit escape to close the search; you will then be placed on the desired
> file. this works for me with Gnome 3.10 and recent git pulls of Orca.
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:58:32PM -0400, Robert Spangler wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Whenever opening a directory that contains a large list of files in
> > Nautilus, Orca freezes for a short time before it speaks again.  It is as
> > though loading the list is freezing it.  I remember this behavior a long
> > time ago but was hoping that it would have been resolved by now. What's the
> > reason behind this lag?
> >
> > Also, is there a way to set up first letter navigation so that, when I press
> > the first letter of a directory or file, it jumps to it instead of to the
> > search box?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Robert
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