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

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

How does pcmanfm perform compared to caja with large directories?



On Sat, 23 Jan 2021, Didier Spaier via orca-list wrote:

> 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 ? 06:20, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL via orca-list a ?crit :
> >  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
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