Performance shock

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Tom Adelstein Wrote: 
> On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 22:22 -0400, Andy wrote:[color=blue][color=green]

> I've been testing desktops for over two years and one half years now
> and

> to say that Microsoft Windows runs faster than Linux one the same

> configurations is just wrong. 



I cannot believe in all that time you have never...



opened a folder containing a few thousand images



selected a few hundred from the middle of the list...



press "delete" or otherwise moved the files with the window still
open.



It's absurd. I love gnome and I like everything about the way nautilus
works except the way it has to redraw the damn window on every single
change. Sometimes it seems to not be bothered with this, the files get
moved/deleted and the window refreshes in one swoop - but most of the
time opening a foider with, say, 3000 images and moving some large
portion of those images to another folder while the source folder is
still selected (it doesn't even have to be open, just hilighted)
usually results in a file operation progress box that looks like a
moonshot countdown: 10 files moved.....11 files moved.... 12 files
moved....



Even OPENING a folder with several thousand images takes a while. I
live with that because I want the size and count information - but
there needs some serious work done on the way redraws are handled
during folder operations.



And don't even get me started on the way fam seems to just "go away"
due to this. No visible crashes, one just notices all of a sudden one
has ot hit "refresh" a lot to get update folder info. Yet in spite of
this, drag and drop ops between folders STILL end up taking forever...
](*,)


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