Comment 12 for bug 288857

Maybe the Summary should read: nautilus is slow when using LARGE images
as icons

MAY BE IMPORTANT:
The icons on my desktop are at 75% of their normal size (in Nautilus
preferences).

The JPG picture used as icon is 3.9 megs.
Maybe your JPG screenshot is not big enough.
I sent you one in another mail in case you had mailbox size limits.
The folder customized contains 78 pictures, size 3 to 4 megs each
The customizing itself (reducing picture to icon) is very quick.

I retried today with the same result, a slow down (hanging, no crash)
lasting 2 min. followed by recovery. After recovery everything's back to
normal (no more hanging).

I added a new folder containing only one 4 megs picture, cutomized the
folder with the picture. When clicking on the new folder (or any other
folder) ther was no reaction. The folders suddenly opened 2-3 min late.
So on my pc, the number of objects in the customized folder doesn't seem
to matter.

I logged out of Gnome (no X restart) and back again with the picture
customized folder still on desktop. The slow down occured again (the
recovery effect lasts through session only).

PC is intel P4 2.4 with hyperthreading (same behavior on a core 2).

It's no inconvenience. It's simply strange. It may (or may not) reveal a
deeper problem.

Sebastien Bacher a écrit :
> changing an image to an icon should not be that slow, I tried taking a
> screenshot and using that as a directory icon and there is no slowdown.
> could you try to figure exactly what case is triggering the bug? does it
> depend of the image? or the number of images in the directory where you
> select one?
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - when icons on desktop (compiz-fusion) are customized (png, svg...), nautilus hangs
> + nautilus is slow when using images as icons
>
> ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Medium => Low
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>