Bug 315315

Summary: Dolphin re-layouts all items too often in folders with many items while previews and/or mime types are received.
Product: [Applications] dolphin Reporter: Frank Reininghaus <frank78ac>
Component: view-engine: generalAssignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 2.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: http://commits.kde.org/kde-baseapps/daf12b8eb379d7a74919f6ae9952fb3b51bd85af Version Fixed In: 4.10.1

Description Frank Reininghaus 2013-02-17 10:30:21 UTC 
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
Comment 1 Frank Reininghaus 2013-02-17 10:31:35 UTC 
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