Re: [Nautilus-list] throbber out-of-process

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Thursday, August 2, 2001, at 03:39  PM, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> The rationale I've heard for having the throbber out-of-process is so
> that it keeps throbbing when Nautilus is locked up.
>
> However, isn't the point of a throbber to show that Nautilus is doing
> work? So if it's stuck then the throbber _should_ lock up, right? And
> Nautilus doesn't get stuck nearly as much as it used to.
>
> Just wondering if we can in-process this and trim a bit of excess
> overhead.

We had an in-process throbber. It wasn't throbbing enough to the point 
that people thought that Nautilus was completely broken.

So Andy made the out of process throbber. I said at the time that I would 
have preferred to fix the places where Nautilus locks up. Nautilus was 
designed so that it should basically never lock up. It should always be 
another thread that blocks, not the main one.

I'm not sure where you get the idea that Nautilus doesn't get stuck as 
much as it used to. Do the recent changes really make Nautilus get stuck 
so much less? I think there are all sorts of things that make Nautilus 
lock up more than it should.

So I'd love to have the throbber in process again, if it doesn't make 
Nautilus immediately worse.

I believe that on balance throbber currently makes the experience better, 
even if it's somehow slightly dishonest to keep it throbber when Nautilus 
is locked up.

    -- Darin