[PATCH] Speed up iconView's setIcons 2x...

[Koos Vriezen]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Koos Vriezen wrote:

> > Koos Vriezen wrote:
> > >
> > > At first it looks fast, but it seems to block more. When going from a
> > > large dir to another and back again, the old flikkering behaviour
> > > re-appears and it blocks for a while. Small dirs, due to blocking, seems
> > > to be slower with this patch.
> > > (All measure done with a wet finger in the wind)
>
> For large dirs, it is fast at first. Re-entering it, freezes konqi for a
> second, then flikkering while displaying again. Maybe a cache thing.

The freezing is gone, but the re-entering flickering not. After looking
very carefully at the first icon, I noticed that it's first the file
you'll see doing a 'ls -f' on that dir, after the repaint it's sorted.
Could it be, that the cache delivers the entries unsorted?

Koos