Bug 295237

Summary: In big folders with many different filetypes, the late appearing previews are jarring
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab>
Component: view-engine: icons modeAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: arne_bab, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Arne Babenhauserheide 2012-03-03 03:57:30 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux) KHTML/4.8.0 (like Gecko) Konqueror/4.8
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In a big folder with many different filetypes (opening for the first time ore reloading with F5), the images previews appers suddenly, but one filetype after the other.

All together this feels very jarring: I’m stilgthly startled everytime the icons suddenly change their image.

An Alternative I can think of would be to not delete the icons on F5 and recompute, but to replace them and only update the new icons once they are recalculated - but keep the old ones around, till they are replaced.

Another option to make it seem less jarring would be to make new icons fade in. That way, they would not startle the user.

But aside from that, the new display engine is really nice. Really cool work!


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) 2012-08-24 16:18:41 UTC 
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2017-09-04 04:48:52 UTC 
I don't see this behavior anymore. The icon previews are now generated icon-by-icon, not one type at a time.