[dolphin] [Bug 499551] Dolphin hangs when opening context menu for directory with many files or for a huge file selection

[Andrea Ippolito]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499551

--- Comment #4 from Andrea Ippolito <andrea.ippo at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Andrea Ippolito from comment #3)
> (In reply to Andrea Ippolito from comment #2)
> > If you read until this point, now try to tar or zip without compression (zip
> > -r 0) all those files, then open the archive with Ark, and you'll be in for
> > a surprise...
> > 
> > tar and zip are quite fast in CLI (tar without gz is basically instant, or
> > takes a couple of seconds; zip takes 10 or 20 seconds here). But when it
> > comes to opening the archives in Ark, it hangs eventually. Archives are 1.1
> > to 1.4GB in size.
> > 
> > I'll file a separate report for that on Ark.
> 
> I mean, technically it doesn't hang, it just takes so long that "KDE"
> considers it to be not responding. But the status bar actually reports an
> increase in progress (now I'm at 74% after more than 5', so I'll get there
> eventually)

Ark eventually opened, took something like 20 minutes - now as expected it's
having a hard time scrolling through the contents, as soon as I drag the scroll
handle in the sidebar, it goes all white and Not responding

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