Re: [Nautilus-list] Folder load behaviour

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

on 10/11/01 3:08 AM, Seth Nickell at snickell stanford edu wrote:

>> Is it possible to add an option to control how the folder is loaded?
>> Now the icons are displayed as the folder are loading.
>> I think this is annoying...
>> Would be great if there could be an option in the preferences to change
>> this so the entire folder is loaded before the icons are displayed.
>> Is it hard, or could this even be in 1.0.5??
> 
> Hm, I would prefer this were not a preference, but perhaps the behavior
> could be changed. The downside would be on large folders it would take a
> long time for anything to display.
> 
> Darin, given that the directory read itself isn't really a performance
> issue right now, couldn't we load things like icons respecting the
> current sort order so that icons would fill the screen almost
> immediately, but wouldn't dance around as new entries were added? (which
> I think is why progressive loading could be seen as annoying)

Maciej tried to fix things so the icons wouldn't dance around. He ran into
some trouble. You are welcome to give it a try too. I won't be able to get
to this myself for a while.

    -- Darin