Thunar is fast file browser, much faster than nautilus and its forks nemo, caja While using thunar 1.7.2, I notice significant slowness browsing folders, particularly annoying when folders have with many files/folders. But funny thing is, if I browse in detailed list mode all is as fast as using thunar 1.6 So thunar 1.7 has regression browsing in icons and compact list mode. Just asking if anything could be done
I cannot make out any browsing speed difference between the different views, or between 1.6.x and 1.7.x ... possibly that is beacause I use a ssd. Which amount of pictures we are talking about ? And what exactly you mean by "browsing folders" ? Entering them takes time ? Or scrolling inside of them ? Maybe take a try with the most recent version of tumbler .. think some performance issue was fixed for it recently.
I dont have tumbler installed(I tried installed, not difference) Its is not my ssd disk, because I can reproduce slowness even when I copy all folder an its content to /dev/shm Slowness(= visually annoying, between half and 1 second waiting for displaying content(= list files, folders)when clicked/opened, scrolling is fine Happens only with few folders-and those contains only few pictures, only about 1000 mixed files. Others folder with similar sizes and content are not affected. With thunar 1.6 it is instantaneous.
Hmm, still no luck on reproducing this .. maybe you can provide a folder.tar.gz which triggers the bug for you ? (By replacing private stuff with dummy-files)
Closing since reporter didn't reply.