Re: nautilus limits ?

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Alex,

On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 07:37, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > The cdrom in question contains about 4500 .jpg's.  I'm curious - what is 
> > the limit for nautilus to handle and what exactly is the limiting factor ?
> 
> At the moment it's just a hard coded limit. It was once introduced to 
> avoid nautilus becomming huge and slow when reading e.g. /dev. Since we're 
> better these days maybe we should up bump this limit to 10000 or so.

	It was un-hard coded by me for Sun for 2.0 - so if you go poking with
GConf editor to:

	/apps/nautilus/preferences

	You can tweak 'directory_limit' mine says 4000 currently; You can also
set it to '-1' == no limit. However - be warned, that nautilus does use
a fairly significant amount of memory for 4000 thumbnailed images - it
caches all of the images [ things could be done more intelligently there
but ... it's all effort ], so it's perhaps not altogether wise to have
no limit.

	HTH,

		Michael.

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