Re: Nautilus item count
hi,
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Paulo Jose da Silva e Silva wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have moved to gnome this last weekend. The hello desktop feels very
> good but one small point. Nautilus feel a little slow for me. (I have an
> older machine, k6-2 300 MHz and 128 Mb) I tried to disable most of the
> features that can make it slower but it wasn't enough.
>
> One thing that called my attention is that it usually takes longer to
> show the directories than the regular files even though I have the
> "count items" option disabled. I am really with the impression that
> nautilus is still loosing time counting the items in sub-directory. Does
> any one know if this is really nautilus' behavior and how to turn it
> off?
nautilus performance problems are well known and if you find it slow for
your purpose, you best bet would be to use another file manager such as
gmc, rox, or konqueror. On a positive note, nautilus2 (gnome2 version of
nautilus) is extremely snappy.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Paulo
>
>
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Amardeep Singh
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