[openbeos] Re: Tracker icons
- From: "Simon Taylor" <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:17:25 +0100 BST
> 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.
It's irrelevent as I'm sure people have pointed out already as files
are not returned by the API in search order. Each file has to have the
attribute it is ordered on read from the file - that is what takes the
time. That point might have been lost in the noise.
Simon
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