[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #55816] Laggy file browser

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #12, bug #55816 (project octave):

FWIW, I recognize the "very wide Name column" in the file browser from many
months ago, but not slowness. (FYI I only run development Octave versions and
I make & install Windows crossbuilds on average about twice a week.) At that
time I was just pondering about entering a bug report when in a next build the
file browser behavior came back to "normal".
I speculated that the file browser issue was related to a mix-up of qtsettings
files that maybe have backwards incompatible sections (= problem is on my
side) so I didn't bother. The more so since I'm comfortable with the fact that
living on the bleeding edge has some consequences.

@Dan (1):
+1 for the tooltip suggestion in comment #7. Is there a feature request for
it? (I think I saw some time ago.) As a workaround I use the Variable Editor a
lot for on the fly tracking of variable values.

@Dan (2):
At work I'm "convicted" to Windows so I use that mostly. On those heavily
managed systems I often see delays, esp. as file operations are invoked,
sometimes indeed several seconds. That seems equally valid for many other SW
incl. Matlab. Yet at home on my own HW I see little or no "snappyness"
differences between Linux and Windows on the same multiboot boxes, and on both
OSes Octave and Matlab are fast and responsive. 


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