Slows starting of downloading with KIO

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 20 December 2005 11:26, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Monday 19 December 2005 22:13, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> > On Monday 19 December 2005 20:36, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > >so perhaps we shouldn't start the progress meter until all the files are
> > > >statted, but start the download of the first file immediately?
> > >
> > > Which could clog the connection and make the statting slower, resulting
> > > in a dialog that took a long while to appear.
> > >
> > > Another option is to display the dialog soon and re-allocate progress bar
> > > area when more information becomes available. Of course, the drawback in
> > > that case is that the progress will decrease.
> >
> 
> > In Andras' particular case he's already looking at the file listing from
> > kio-ftp. Since a directory listing in FTP is roughly similar to ls -l
> > output we can already safely *KNOW* whether the targets of the links are
> > files or folders and skip the statting altogether for the files.
> 
> And what if the list is not in Unix format? I know that it is currently barely 
> supported, but that is something that must be taken care in KDE4.

Doesn't matter; we need details for a folder listing anyway (think detailed list view),
whichever way we get those details, so at copy time we could indeed reuse those details.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).