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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Folder previes in Dolphin
From:       "Jesse L. Zamora" <xtremek2008 () aim ! com>
Date:       2008-11-17 14:28:22
Message-ID: 200811170928.23096.xtremek2008 () aim ! com
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On Monday 17 November 2008 05:47:54 John Tapsell wrote:
> 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 a way that the balance between system load and showing outdated/wrong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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That was one thing I was thinking about, maybe it can be a low priority deal, 
that way if you only spend 2 seconds in one directory, it won't immediately 
start loading icons. And of course, once the images are in the cache, it 
should be much faster.....

 
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