You know the problem. The one where the appearance of a scrollbar causes the icons to be laid out again, which calls for the removal of the scrollbar, which causes the icons to be laid out again, etc. This patch fixes the problem. I'll see about attaching the patch now. Until then, it can be found at the URL I listed with this bug report.
Created attachment 746 This patch fixes the layout problem
Committed with revision 22889. 2006-08-26 Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org> * exo/exo-icon-view.c: Finally fix the layout problem where the appearance of a scrollbar causes the icons to be laid out again and again. Thanks to Matt McClinch <mattmcclinch@gmail.com> for the patch. Bug #2219.