Re: [orca-list] How to improve some apps speed with Orca

[Didier Spaier <didier slint fr>]

Hi Jean-Philippe,

Caja is very slow even when Orca is not running.

as an example it takes a long time to display the content of a folder
containing 3400 files in detailed list mode.

Thunar and Dolphin are way faster to do the same thing.

Another Caja oddity is that it often doesn't refresh the displayed list of
files when they change, at least here (version 1.24.0).

Cheers, Didier

Le 23/01/2021 à 06:20, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL via orca-list a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I experience several situations for which I wonder how it would be 
> possible to help Orca or the app to work faster. Here are 3 examples. My 
> purpose is to know wether it is a Orca work or what kind of bugs I 
> should report to the upstream app.
> 1. Caja: in list mode, or compact mode, when I load a directory 
> containing many files, the window loads very very slowly. THe contents 
> of the dir is displayed, but Orca does not displays it. What can be done?
> 2. Thunderbird: if Orca starts in a maildir containing thousands orf 
> mails, all is freezing several minutes before I can go ahead. Just like 
> if Orca needs time to parse the dir.
> 3. GTK open/save dialog: last year we talked about them about the search 
> method when entering, in the file list, letters contained in the file. A 
> solution was found but I dont know how it was implemented. Now the thing 
> is when I enter a path, with ctrl-l, the text I am writing or 
> autocompletion is very very long before being displayed. The problem is 
> only with Orca because if I restart it, the line is immediately complete.
>
> I guess it is an event issue, but I think we would really improve the 
> users Linux experience working on this problem
>
> Thanks for feedback
>
> regards