network:/// location is slow to display remote connections

[Daniel Borgmann]

When opening the Network location, Nautilus always takes a little while before
displaying its content, probably to scan the network. This is irritating because
most of the time I just want to access my custom connection icons (created via
"Connect to Server"). It would be great if those icons could be displayed
immediately, adding the dynamic network icons only after the scanning is complete.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

James, since you have made the patch, any idea if this is easy to get too ?

[James Henstridge (jamesh)]

I'm not sure how easy this would be.

The network:/// VFS method displays the computers found in the user's SMB
workgroup at the top level (if the user hasn't set a default workgroup, it
searches for computers in the "WORKGROUP" SMB workgroup.

Since the SMB method uses a blank smb.conf file (~/.smb/smb.conf), this lookup
is done via broadcast, which is slow.

The simplest fix would be to not display the contents of the SMB workgroup under
network:///. This would probably fix up the speed issue for most users, but is
a regression for people using the SMB browsing capabilities.

[Alessandro Gervaso (gervystar)]

Begin the broadcasting as the users logs on could be an idea.
I think windows too does so.
Anyway there should be a config item to choose wheter begin browsing on logon or
not.

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

Is there still activity going on to resolve this one, or should it be closed as
WONTFIX?

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

Closing as WONTFIX as this bug seems to not be active anymore.

Feel free to reopen it if needed.