#523048 nautilus loads directories slowly when gnome assistive technologies enabled

Package:
nautilus
Source:
nautilus
Description:
file manager and graphical shell for GNOME
Submitter:
Paul Hartley
Date:
2014-10-29 19:21:23 UTC
Severity:
important
#523048#5
Date:
2009-04-08 05:55:57 UTC
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To:
When I have gnome assistive technologies enabled and browse directories with Nautilus, it takes longer for those
directories to load and display their contents compared to when assistive technologies is not enabled.  As an extreme
benchmark, if I try to open and display the contents of a directory with 3,311 items, Nautilus is still loading
the directory after 2 minutes when assistive technologies is enabled, but takes only 2 seconds when assistive
technologies is not enabled.

I ran nautilus under gdb with nautilus debugging symbols but nothing came up.  If you know "where to look" for
information that might help diagnose the problem, I can look if you can tell me.
#523048#10
Date:
2010-03-06 05:46:46 UTC
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To:
I can confirm this bug is still present in nautilus 2.8.4-1.

If I have gnome assistive technologies enabled nautilus becomes
extremely slow working on large directories.

In example, if I try to browse /usr/bin, which contains over 3600 files,
nautilus hangs with the processor running at 100% for minutes. I'm not
sure how long it would take because after 15 minutes I usually kill the
process.

The problem is also on delete, if the thrash has lots of files it takes
forever to delete files in any folder.

I took me weeks to understand this was related to assistive
technologies, until yesterday I was pondering to switch to a different
file manager thinking my laptop (P4 mobile, 3GHz, 1GB RAM) wasn't up to
the job anymore.

If it's not possible to fix it perhaps it shouldn't be enabled by
default (not sure this is the case but I can't recall ever enabling it)
and there should be a warning that performance will possibly degrade.


Please, let me know if I need to open a new bug report or I should post
more details about my system.


Have a nice day,


Paolo.
#523048#15
Date:
2010-03-07 08:20:35 UTC
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Le samedi 06 mars 2010 à 13:46 +0800, Paolo Scarabelli a écrit :

I guess you mean 2.28.4.

Assistive technologies are not enabled by default, no. I guess a warning
could be in order, but the real solution is to fix at-spi, not to just
warn about it. I think this will be done when it is finally migrated to
a new D-Bus-based interface.

Cheers,
#523048#20
Date:
2010-03-07 17:37:48 UTC
From:
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Hi Josselin,

Thanks for your quick reply.

You are right, I meant 2.28.4.


Have a nice day,


Paolo.


Josselin Mouette wrote:
#523048#25
Date:
2011-03-29 19:59:44 UTC
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It seem to be a general bug in Nautilus (and not only with assistive technology
on)

Please see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=620553
#523048#30
Date:
2014-07-07 17:31:09 UTC
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Hey,

this is an old bug.

Could you please still reproduce this issue with newer nautilus version
like 3.4.2-1+build1 or 3.8.2-3 ?

thanks
regards,
Pedro
#523048#35
Date:
2014-07-23 16:19:36 UTC
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To:
Hi Pedro,

Enabling the Gnome Screen Reader with Nautilus 3.12.2-1, directories with a
large number of files still load a lot slower.

Please, let me know if I can do some test to help.

have a nice day,

Paolo
#523048#40
Date:
2014-07-23 18:10:22 UTC
From:
To:
Hey Paolo,

I'm marking this as found on 3.12.2-1 despite I can't reproduce it here.

thanks
regards
althaser
#523048#47
Date:
2014-10-29 19:19:50 UTC
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To:
Confirming this issue with Nautilus is still present with
* Nautilus: 3.4.2-1+build1
* Nautilus View: "List View"
* Debian: Wheezy 7.7 at 64 bit
* Gnome: Version 3.4.2
* Intel Core: i7-3770S CPU @ 3.10GHz × 8
* RAM: 16 GB

Detail bug report at
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767276