Comment 13 for bug 645300

(In reply to comment #9)
> In addition, you probably want to be smart about how you grab things (there's
> no need to grab the icons for everything at once, for example, you can be
> intelligent about only grabbing what you can see on the screen plus the next N
> for some value of N -- if someone scrolls way down in the list and has to wait
> for a few icons to load, as long as they lazily do so, that's okay!)

Sure, but we search in the locale, and hence we need that data upfront. Having icons download once per-user also seems painful (as the tools run as the user session, not root).