Re: [Nautilus-list] fixing the fact that updating menus takes a lot of time

[Miguel Rodríguez Pérez <migrax terra es>]

El 14 Jun 2001 09:18:54 -0700, Darin Adler escribió:
> On Thursday, June 14, 2001, at 08:38  AM, Alex Larsson wrote:
> 
> > The problem is not the I/O. The problem is that each view of that
> > directory gets a lot of file_changed signals, which leads to every view
> > updating it's menus. Due to braindeadness in Bobobo, updating the menus
> > takes a lot of time, so performance drops rapidly as you get more views
> > displaying the directory.
> >
> > For more info on this, see my mail on 12 Jun with subject
> > "Re: [Nautilus-list] hidden files bug".
> 
> Here's my thinking on this.
> 
> I want to build a layer on top of Bonobo (probably in 
> eel-bonobo-extensions.[ch] or in libnautilus-private) that keeps track of 
> the UI items and their state in some fast data structure, like a hash 
> table. Then, when the menu update is done, we'll build the appropriate XML 
> and send a single piece of XML to Bonobo for changes in the component's 
> menus and nothing at all if nothing changed.
> 
I'm really glad to hear this. I think this will be a real speed boost
for Nautilus.
> Before now I resisted doing this because I thought that what Alex calls 
> the "branddeadness" in Bonobo would eventually get fixed. And because this 
> problem would affect any other substantial Bonobo component and program. 
> But now that it's clear I need to do it, it should be pretty easy to do.
> 
> I'm not sure when I'll get around to this. If someone is interested in 
> helping I'd be happy to talk about the idea in more detail.
> 
Well, I'd like to help, but I won't have too much free time till august.
:-(
>      -- Darin
> 
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