http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/17080/
It would be nice to see some kind of status bar which shows how far nautilus is in reading the contents of the folder.

[236 votes] Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #17080


[186 votes] Solution #2: Show file list quickly - then start metadata retrieval process


[43 votes] Solution #3: Show files that will fit in Nautilus window quickly


[-23 votes] Solution #4: Thumbnail large folders automatically


]]> en-us Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:33:53 +0000 Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:44:31 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17080/
Nautilus becomes unusable when directories start getting several thousand files.

Anyway, maybe the status bar would help in this.]]> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:45:47 +0000 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:58:29 +0000 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:32:54 +0000 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:48:17 +0000 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:09:16 +0000 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:33:54 +0000 Solve the real problem.
Make Nautilus faster.]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:59:34 +0000
Although I am not a programmer I guess an easier to implement feature for now would be the statusbar which is why I suggested it..

One last note. When I was on ubuntu 6.06, and 7.10 I never had problems with the size of these folders. The problem only appeared when I got to 8.04...


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Even if a immediate list of files is displayed one would still like to know when ALL the files will be displayed and give an idea of how long it will take.

Also making nautilus faster will be great but it will hit a situation where the amount of files it needs to display will be too great and cause the user to wait without progress.

The progress/status will be very useful when displaying a list of files over a network (where the bottle neck isn't nautilus.)




]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:48:05 +0000 It will be nice to have a file browser faster, I think the bar is a good start to make the slowness of nautilus evident.]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:33:53 +0000 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:38:08 +0000
If you pipe the ls output to a file, its almost instant.

I think the performance bottle neck is in nautilus.
]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:51:59 +0000 "Do other file managers perform better on ext3? Im wondering whether it is an underlying problem brought about by a substandard filesystem."

On a 1 yr old laptop with config: T7700, 3GB DDR2 RAM, 320GB SATA-II HDD and a 512MB GPU, dolphin works faster (much faster rather) while opening my music folder which has exactly 834 folders.

A first look at the comment from braaivleis would make me think "ls simply lists them. Nautilus or any GUI file manager would show the previews and stuff", but all what I have is folders in my music folder. And anyway, dolphin is faster on my laptop(s) than nautilus.

Also, dolphin shows "Loading folder" bar below as the idea proposes.

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Things works just fine from the CLI there, though - maybe a half second delay for ls to start producing output. It's not a problem with the filesystem/CPU/disk.]]> Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:29:57 +0000
Honestly, why didn't the Nautilus devs do this to begin with?

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However, whole process' speed may be also affected by other factors like the device's speed. It is even more appreciable when loading content of a remote directory, e.g. from an FTP server and everything you can see then, is cursor, saing there's some progress in the background. But there may be also a status bar, saing in which state the progress is and the content should be updated in more steps subsequently, if it's needed. Not just print whole directory's content at once after a long time, when it's ready.]]> Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:44:31 +0000