Yo GNOMErs! It’s been a while, huh?
Yesterday I was with a very strong headache, and I couldn’t sleep. So I decided to listen to some classical music and see if I could relax a little bit. What a great chance to try GNOME Music again!
Well, it wasn’t such a please. My music collection is large, literally over 9000, and Music took a f*cking minute to be ready. No. No no no no.
I was in a suboptimal health state, but oh boy that’s not acceptable. So, in another sleep-deprived night, here’s what happened:
Georges Stavracas 
eheh I have ~20.000 songs, gnome-music simply NEVER gets ready 🙂
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I know that feeling!
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What was the issue?
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The issue was GtkIconView, with it’s O(n³) algorithms 🙂
It was replaced by GtkFlowBox and the problem is gone.
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Holy… and I thought an accidental quadratic in Nautilus was bad.
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Stop doing that, I’m starting to wish you sleepless nights pal 🙂
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Sorry! 😛
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Hi,
this is one point why i’m still using Rhythmbox. When will your updates be in master?
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