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[Ketil <1421204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I am using Nautilus to navigate to a network share with a few hundred
folders, and my nautilus is set to display the "list" view. To fill out
the "size" column, nautilus eagerly traverses all the folders on the
network share to find the number of items inside each folder. While it's
doing this, keyboard input is ignored (or queued until it's done
counting, not sure).

When I navigate to a folder, and I know the name of the folder I want to
access in the next step, I can usually just type the name of the folder
into nautilus, and it jumps to the folder name for me. Instead, I have
to wait, or I have to grab the mouse and start browsing.

I think the correct behaviour would be to run any such item counting in
a way that it doesn't interrupt usability, and give priority to user
input. In most cases, I'd type the name of my folder and hit enter to
open it quite a lot faster than the time nautilus spends just counting
items. That way I'd be saving both time and system resources if nautilus
gave priority to the user rather than to stats counting.

My folder view in nautilus is sorted by name, not size, so the item
counts are only displayed. I'm not actually using them for anything.

Removing the size column seems to improve the situation, but I don't
consider that an acceptable workaround. Fetching all the Modified times
from the server sometimes takes a noticable amount of time as well, so
for good responsiveness I may have to remove that as well, as the
situation is currently.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.5
Uname: Linux 3.17.1-031701-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Feb 12 13:58:28 2015
GsettingsChanges:
 
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-09 (125 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty

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Title:
  Nautilus slow to react to keyboard input while calculating items in
  folders

Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I am using Nautilus to navigate to a network share with a few hundred
  folders, and my nautilus is set to display the "list" view. To fill
  out the "size" column, nautilus eagerly traverses all the folders on
  the network share to find the number of items inside each folder.
  While it's doing this, keyboard input is ignored (or queued until it's
  done counting, not sure).

  When I navigate to a folder, and I know the name of the folder I want
  to access in the next step, I can usually just type the name of the
  folder into nautilus, and it jumps to the folder name for me. Instead,
  I have to wait, or I have to grab the mouse and start browsing.

  I think the correct behaviour would be to run any such item counting
  in a way that it doesn't interrupt usability, and give priority to
  user input. In most cases, I'd type the name of my folder and hit
  enter to open it quite a lot faster than the time nautilus spends just
  counting items. That way I'd be saving both time and system resources
  if nautilus gave priority to the user rather than to stats counting.

  My folder view in nautilus is sorted by name, not size, so the item
  counts are only displayed. I'm not actually using them for anything.

  Removing the size column seems to improve the situation, but I don't
  consider that an acceptable workaround. Fetching all the Modified
  times from the server sometimes takes a noticable amount of time as
  well, so for good responsiveness I may have to remove that as well, as
  the situation is currently.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: nautilus 1:3.10.1-0ubuntu9.5
  Uname: Linux 3.17.1-031701-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Thu Feb 12 13:58:28 2015
  GsettingsChanges:
   
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-09 (125 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
  SourcePackage: nautilus
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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