Nautilus is much slower than KDE's Konqueror or MS Explorer at creating
thumbnails of images for the first time (ie, not reading from cached
thumbnails). The speed difference is quite noticible on images greater than 100k
or so.



------- Additional Comments From smaclean@ns.sympatico.ca 2001-03-08 21:58:54 ----

More information: my machine is a Celeron 450 with 256M RAM.



------- Additional Comments From andy@eazel.com 2001-03-08 22:06:19 ----

this is a duplicate of bug 46070 which is "use a better thumbnailing algorithm", 
even though that's non-obvious, since that bug is more about eliminating the 
thumbnailing size constraint.  Right now, Nautilus reads an entire image into 
memory to thumbnail it, which sucks.  The reason the bug accented the size 
limitation rather than the speed was that it was judged that since you only 
experience the slowness the very first time, it wasn't that important. 

Anyway, you're right that it makes us look bad next to windows and KDE, so we 
should fix it in the next release.

That's a long-winded way of marking this a duplicate.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46070 ***



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:10 -------

The original reporter (smaclean@ns.sympatico.ca) of this bug does not have an account here.
Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.