Benedikt Meurer wrote: >>I noticed the same thing. >>Opening my /usr/bin directory which contains about 2128 files took >>thunar about 20 seconds. Rox opened it in 3 seconds. >> >>Odd... > > For /usr/bin, that's the expected behaviour, and easy to explain. ROX > doesn't do magic lookups on the MIME database, while Thunar follows the > MIME spec (with one small exception) and does the magic lookup if none > of the glob patterns match. Since Linux binaries usually don't include > an extension, no glob patterns will match, and Thunar will have to open > each file and check the magic patterns. Looking into 2128 files for the > first time can take up to 20 seconds, depending on the systems I/O > performance.
Hm, this seems to be fixed with ROX 2.4. It's using xdgmime now, which does the magic lookups. Opening /usr/local/bin from cold(!) cache in both Thunar and ROX 2.4 takes about the same time. Benedikt _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
