Local directory view is synchronous

[gaspard_leon]

Local folder view is currently synchronous...

The most obvious way to see this is to map a network drive and navigate to it in the left pane (local folder tree)

The whole interface is stuck while updating the view.

Can this be threaded or whatever to make it Asynchronous??

Cheers,

Gaspard

[Tim Kosse]

Even Microsoft's very own Explorer is synchronous.

While theoretically possible, it's not easy to make it asynchronous.

[Josh Davis]

To elaborate on squid's response:
That would be a major rewrite. Maybe set for FZ4. You'd need a thread to maintain the databases, a thread for the UI, then separate threads (or asyncIO) for each network and filesystem activity. Those separate threads would need to queue and buffer data into the DB thread, or maybe through an event queue.

You'd still run into problems on Windows, because all of Explorer can hang when trying to access a network drive. As such, it might also mean writing a way around this, which could be a huge effort, and very OS specific.

Should this be closed as WONTFIX?