As the #Nautilus team keeps making progress in refactoring and optimizing #GNOMEFiles, we can see #GNOME's file manager steadily becoming faster.
Among the few performance issues remaining, I believe the probable "Final Boss" of search performance is this issue, which would require some refactoring across the views. Anyone up for a challenge? https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/3452
I have a huge amount of appreciation for the fact that Nautilus / #GNOMEFiles can seamlessly pattern-select, batch-rename and move files both from its treeview and from search results… all with keyboard shortcuts! Extremely useful to clean up filenames.
Today, in someone else's messy folders, I was able to cleanly rename everything and eliminate at least 40 duplicates in a directory that contained over 180 files, most of which were in the wrong locations.
I've been doing #sysprof profiling & stopwatch measurements of #GNOMEFiles loading local folders with thousands of items without a warm disk cache. #XFCE's #Thunar file manager still feels 4 to 30x faster than #Nautilus in this scenario.
It seems the functions used for querying thumbnails attributes are currently really expensive. Hopefully they can be optimized.