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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Roman Shchekin <mrqtros@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Oliver
>
> I am pretty sure that app lives for 5-6 seconds after switch. Anyway, I can
> measure speed wich clock, but that doesn't change facts - FM is slow.

It lives on for a few seconds after moving to the background indeed,
but there’s no guarantee on how long that is. My point was that the
method you’re using to demonstrate the problem is not valid. But the
problem certainly exists, I think a bug report (at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-filemanager-app/+filebug) would be
welcome to start investigating.



> 2016-05-17 12:55 GMT+03:00 Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Roman Shchekin <mrqtros@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi all
>> >
>> > Funny obervation - my cloud storage client (YaD) is working faster than
>> > local file manager. I filmed it:
>> > https://yadi.sk/i/Znsn5baRriDtD
>> > I open folder with big amount of files via File Manager, then switch to
>> > my
>> > app, reload folder (equivalent to navigation to it), wait when it is
>> > done,
>> > go back to FM - it is still updating.
>>
>> Unless you added an exception to lifecycle policy for the file manager
>> app (e.g. using the TweakGeek app), when switching to your app the
>> file manager is being suspended, so it doesn’t do any processing until
>> you move it to the foreground again.
>> You will need to use a stopwatch to do a meaningful comparison.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>>  Olivier
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