The code in KStandardItemListView::itemSizeHintUpdateRequired() which tries to prevent expensive re-layoutings every time an iconName or iconPixmap is received does not work because it does not consider the iconOverlays role, which usually also changes if one of the others changes. This is at least a part of the reason why scrolling the view in folders with many items is slow for some time after the folder has been opened, see bug 306290 and http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=224&t=107910. A fix is coming up, see https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/108984/. Reproducible: Always
Git commit daf12b8eb379d7a74919f6ae9952fb3b51bd85af by Frank Reininghaus. Committed on 17/02/2013 at 11:21. Pushed by freininghaus into branch 'KDE/4.10'. Prevent repeated re-layouting of all items while previews are generated There was some code in KStandardItemListView::itemSizeHintUpdateRequired already that was supposed to prevent an expensive re-layouting of all items when a preview is received. However, it didn't quite work as intended because also the "iconOverlays" role changed. The new approach is to only re-layout if text of a visible role changes, because this is the only way how the space needed by an item might change (see KStandardItemListWidgetInformant::itemSizeHint()). FIXED-IN: 4.10.1 REVIEW: 108984 M +8 -8 dolphin/src/kitemviews/kstandarditemlistview.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kde-baseapps/daf12b8eb379d7a74919f6ae9952fb3b51bd85af