[dolphin] [Bug 477187] Option to disable calculating the size and number of items in child directories

[random011]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477187

--- Comment #2 from random011 <hishtnik011 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to joweo3 from comment #1)
> I second this. Currently im using Dolphin 21.12.3 on xubuntu 22.04 and im
> having an issue where i have over 10k items in a folder, im looking at the
> parent folder and it keeps freezing and i cant refresh it without waiting
> for it to re-calculate the size of the child folder.
> 
>  (and ive tested this from 2 different SSD drives as well as a HDD drive so
> its not my drives) - granted this is probably a different bug, since i didnt
> have this issue when using Dolphin on xubuntu 20.04 few months ago.
> 
> Therefore Disabling this feature of counting or calculating the size of the
> folders would help stop this from happening.
> Unless there is a way to force remove the option from a config file or
> something as a workaround?

There is no workaround with config files. I've tried. In Dolphin settings I
told it count the number of items at a max depth of 1 (which I think is the
most efficient while having this feature on). Then in the config file I set it
to a depth of 0. After that, even though Dolphin did not display the number of
items in child folders, it continued doing the counting in the background
anyway. I could tell my HDD spinning like crazy for no reason. A KDE dev told
me that this feature is deeply integrated and can't be removed through this
kind of trickery, hence why I posted this.

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