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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Folder previes in Dolphin
From:       "John Tapsell" <johnflux () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-11-17 10:47:54
Message-ID: 43d8ce650811170247i16a0b37erab12583a38f13289 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2008/11/17 Peter Penz <peter.penz@gmx.at>:
> Now assuming a directory is opened with 20 folders you'd have to create 80
> previews on-the-fly, which might decrease the system performance for more than
> 20 seconds (assumption: creating a preview of a non-cached JPEG image takes
> 250 ms).
>
> This does not mean that I would not want to have this feature (it's the
> opposite: it would be great having this feature), but implementing it in a way
> that the balance between system load and showing outdated/wrong pictures is
> given is not trivial. But let's see what we can do for KDE 4.3...

Would it be possible to nice and ionice the processes/threads
generating the previews?

John
 
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