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For a year and a half, we've been chasing an infamous random crash on opening folders in Nautilus. The main ticket was https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/work_items/4035, but there were many others…

Someone recently provided access to a computer where it could be reproduced consistently, and @kabushawarib was able to create a fix for it, in GTK itself: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/9913. Wow 😲

I was not experiencing the bug myself, but I'm so happy that it's fixed for the affected @gnome users! 😌

#GNOME #GNOMEFiles #Nautilus #GTK

Made two small keyboard shortcuts enhancement merge requests today, in Epiphany and Nautilus:

* For Epiphany's tabs overview toggle: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/merge_requests/2066

* For Nautilus' global search: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/1988

Those merge requests could also be nicknamed, "Tell me you're a Dvorak typist without telling me you're a Dvorak typist." :blobpats:

#accessibility #a11y #GNOMEWeb #GNOMEFiles #Epiphany #Nautilus #Dvorak #GNOME #UX

After many more hours of testing and investigation on Saturday night, then three more hours last night to analyze and summarize that discussion's insights, here are my latest findings on the @gnome file manager's "slow cold-loading of the view's contents for folders with many files" performance issue :blobsweats:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/3374#note_2353755
I has the potential to be as fast as Thunar.

I bet it would speed up all views, even search.

#Nautilus #GNOMEFiles #Sysprof #performance #GNOME #Linux #Thunar

The rabbithole investigation of Nautilus' very slow cold-disk-cache folders loading performance continued this week end.
Latest findings here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/3374#note_2345406

#GNOMEFiles #Nautilus #GNOME #performance #Sysprof #benchmarking #filesystems