Hi On 12/11/06, Michael V. De Palatis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 04:32:13AM -0500, Diego Escalante wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I was sitting here reading the wiki[1] and just remembered that > > thumbnailing for websites is a feature request getting rotten[2]. > > Now, I also read suggestions to use the f-spot navigation widget[3] > > which I think is total crack and would make Ephy so BLING BLING that > > it would easily become a killer app. > > Just a general question about all this: How much overhead would this > add? I think that this could be a neat feature, but I worry that this > might possibly make memory usage go up considerably, which is a Bad > Thing(TM) if there does not exist an option to turn this feature > on/off. As it stands, one of the main things I like about Epiphany is > its minimalism, and this would be a feature that would take away from > that a bit. > Yes, turning it on/off would be as easy as selecting "View>Thumbnails". This wouldn't be the default, the default would be "View>List". So everybody is safe :).
> Don't get me wrong, I would probably use the feature (at least on my > desktop) since I don't really have a memory issue, but I think it > would be good to keep up on the lower memory usage in Epiphany versus > Firefox (Disclaimer: The last statement is based only on personal > experience... I haven't really seen any real data on this). > I agree with you, that's why I also agree on making this non-default so it's used by only crack people or for BLING BLING demos/configs. We shouldn't eat a lot of memory doing this, thumbnails could be created on demand and cached as favicons as cached now. That way after 2 or 3 visits to history or bookmark manager, we would have no need to process anything except for sorting. Now that I think about it, maybe this should be enabled only for history (where you need a hint sometimes) because bookmarks are already known to you. > -- > Michael V. De Palatis > Georgia Institute of Technology > School of Physics > 837 State Street > Atlanta, GA 30332-0430 > > mvd 'at' gatech [dot] edu > http://mike.depalatis.net > > _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
