Seg, 2004-12-06 às 09:08 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri escreveu: > On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 03:46, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > > I sent this mail to nautilus-list proposing an optimization that should > > > make the situation a lot better but got no answer: > > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2004-November/msg00074.html > > > > > > This should be considered for 2.10. Any thoughts? > > > > The thing you mention about gthumb doing this exact thing is precisely > > why I dislike this idea. gthumb's behaviour when it comes to thumbnails > > is the SINGLE MOST ANNOYING[1] thing about the program. In short, my > > CPU time is meant to be used. Any second my CPU is not doing a 100% is > > processor time I paid for that got wasted. Especially if I have to > > *scroll down* to make the program actually thumbnail what I want to > > preview. > > > > What's the point of previewing if the previews are not ready for me to > > watch ? If the program is currently not doing anything, and it has work > > left to do to provide me a good and fast UI experience that doesn't > > waste my time waiting for stuff that should already have been done, it > > should GO ON AND DO IT. > > > > > I agree here. Waiting for a user to scroll the bar is wrong. However a > better approach might just be limiting the amount of CPU usage if for > instance it is causing the computer to become unresponsive. If it is > just a reaction to seeing 100% CPU usage then there is no reason for > this optimization. There needs to be hard data that the 100% CPU usage > causes problems. It shouldn't cause problems as long as the 'nice' level of the process/thread is increased, unless it's the same process/thread as remaining nautilus operations, and as long as disk activity is light. > > -- > J5 > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjc inescporto pt> <gustavo users sourceforge net> The universe is always one step beyond logic.
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