Bug 187071

Summary:	delete files takes too long
Product:	[Unmaintained] kio	Reporter:	Gonzalo <gonetil>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate, pascal, skaumo
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	triaged
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Gonzalo 2009-03-13 19:16:52 UTC

Version:           4.2.1 (using KDE 4.2.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Everytime I delete one or more files, I can see an information icon in the taskbar, and and a progress bar raises displaying the progress indeed. But it seems that KDE gives too much importance to this progress bar, and then takes forever to delete 10 or 15 files together. I have run tests in three laptops already, deleting 15 mp3 files using Gnome, KDE4 and from terminal (konsole) and KDE times are really higher than Gnome (and much more compared to Konsole).

The same happens when deleting from Konqueror, Dolphin or Folder View (from KDE desktop).

Comment 1 David Faure 2009-03-16 15:54:12 UTC

Is this about selecting many files or deleting directories which contains many files?

I improved performance of both.
Deleting many files directly: bug 43356 (but you're running the code with the fix already in 4.2)
Deleting directories that contain many files (or subdirs) : bug 174144 (http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3897). But this fix isn't in 4.2.x, only in the future-4.3 branch.

Comment 2 Pascal d'Hermilly 2009-08-17 12:06:36 UTC

dup of bug 179348 ?

Comment 3 skaumo 2014-04-16 15:53:28 UTC

Looks like this is still an open issue on 4.12.3
Today we have deleted a large folder with Dolphin. After 3-4 seconds, as no feedback has been given, we tried again. The folder got actually deleted after another 1-2s, and then we finally got a popup notification confirming that the operation has completed...

Maybe if the folder deletion has to actually take so long for whatever reason (remote mounts, etc), some visual feedback of this would help (e.g.: folder icon in some special colour, strikethrough font for the folder name, or something)

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2018-05-03 21:34:45 UTC

Is this still relevant or applicable with KDE Frameworks 5.45?

Comment 5 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-28 03:10:31 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 15 days. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and set the bug status as REPORTED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDSINFO status with no change in 30 days, the bug will be closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging

If you have already provided the requested information, please set the bug status as REPORTED so that the KDE team knows that the bug is ready to be confirmed.

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Comment 6 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-10-28 03:16:05 UTC

Dear Bug Submitter,

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information.

For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging

Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!