[openbeos] Re: Tracker icons

Jonas Sundström wrote:

 
> I may be an indication that the idea is either so brilliant
> that nobody's thought of it yet.
> 
> Or that it's quite the opposite of brilliant.
> It's sometimes hard to know, beforehand.

I was only suggesting it as a stop-gap measure to avoid slowing
down the display of many (small) files. The user cannot grasp the
full content served to him anyway.

> I'll wager most SQL mindshare is in pre-fab webdesign.

Again, they are doing this in order to speed things up, probably
because if you query properly, most of your results are to be found
in the first iteration anyway. This I presume is also why SQL has a
LIMIT command. As I said above, even if you need more than 50
results/items, by the time you've perused the list, the (slow)
Tracker could have retrieved and cached the next chunk. Just a
thought, though, nothing else, but usually the solutions are much
simpler than we want to believe.

Helmar

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