I'll surface this on Bugzilla as soon as I figure out how to.
Sorry about the confusion. I almost never use icon views so didn't
immediately realize I wasn't getting one when I selected "Open new
directories as icon view" in preferences, then asked it to expand in the
existing window. It seem
A couple of minor clarifications:
Looking more extensively I now believe I experience the problem
(bug) every time I use nautilus, it's just not subjectively important on
small (10-20 file) directories, and some large directories seem less
affected than others, but I haven't discovered any t
A couple quick/easy 'discoveries':
Time to open directories seems about linear in number of items (1m
20sec for 370, 2m 50sec for 670.) Anyway apparently not exponential.
(These were all text files BTW.)
A few times nautilus has remained busy/hung for several minutes
_after_ showing the
I understand very well a transient bug, or as in this case one
apparently affecting only a specific system, is very difficult or
impossible to address. I'll try to explore the envelope to see if I can
associate it with anything more definitive or enlightening.
At this point the problem seems
The problem's reproducible in that it's persistent and consistent. I
just now tried opening one of the directories on which I first noticed
the problem and it took about two minutes of pretty heavy CPU activity
to go from showing the directory arrow turned downward to displaying the
detail lis
