Nautilus moves icons around when loading image thumbnails

[Ssebu]

When I open up a folder in Nautilus that has a lot of pictures in it, it will take a while to load the pictures as thumbnail icons in the Nautilus grid view. However, as the pictures are being loaded, the icons change size, with the effect that icons move around. Because of this, it is almost impossible to click on an icon to open a file while the thumbnails are still loading.

[jpangamarca (jpangamarca)]

Affects me too, since I first started using Ubuntu (7.10, and by then it was worse, it used to effectively lock up Nautilus, at least now it doesn't). It's pretty annoying. For example, if one wants to go to the end of the folder, it's just impossible since it takes several seconds for all the icons to load. It's specially noticeable by scrolling down to the end of the files just after opening the folder with lots of pictures. My sisters and brother (who aren't regular Ubuntu users) were totally annoyed by this. Windows Explorer (and KDE's Dolphin) perfecly handle this kind of situations. I think it can be fixable by loading first all the icons in a fixed-size cell grid and then loading the thumbnails. I'm glad to see this nominated for One Hundred Paper Cuts, and I hope it can be solved. I reported the bug on GNOME Bugzilla, but there's not have been a clear response.

[jpangamarca (jpangamarca)]

Attatchment: Video showing the situation. Nautilus takes some time to start the loading, and please note carefully at 0:27 how icons move around and the scroll bar starts moving without user intervention (this last one happens through all the video), because of the loading of the icons. Sorry about the video codec (Xvid4), Avidemux didn't let me open the original OGV file.

[jpangamarca (jpangamarca)]

Happens with folders with lots of videos too. It happens for folders with other types of documents too, although it's less noticeable.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Per Ångström (autark)]

The upstream bug is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143817

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 401840, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.