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Posted Mar 17, 2011 9:22 UTC (Thu) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641)
In reply to: Fallback mode by jcm
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Nautilus usable ? Even on SSD and all the previews disabled it still takes ages to list a large directory.

I'm fairly certain there is an architectual mistake in Nautilus which is never gonna get fixed so it will never be faster listing 'large' directories.

I just checked, it takes 7 seconds to open a directory with 318 items every time you go to that directory. There is no caching or anything like that ? Really 7 seconds ? That makes no sense to me.

Nautilus just makes me sad to think that it would be the best/most advanced.

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Posted Mar 18, 2011 7:28 UTC (Fri) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link] (1 responses)

> Nautilus usable ? Even on SSD and all the previews disabled it still takes
> ages to list a large directory.

Just use thunar. It lists directories with thousands of entries pretty quickly. It also caches previews of media files, etc.

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Posted Mar 18, 2011 8:55 UTC (Fri) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]

I know Thunar, I'm just surprised Nautilus is still being used in GNOME and default on so many Linux distributions.