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GNOME 2.0 Desktop for the Solaris Operating Environment User Guide

To Set Performance Preferences

Some Nautilus features can affect the speed with which Nautilus responds to your requests. You can modify the behavior of some of these features to improve the speed of Nautilus. For each performance preference, you can select one of the options described in the following table:

Option 

Description  

Always

Performs the action for both local files, and files on other file systems. 

Local File Only

Performs the action for local files only. 

Never

Never performs the action.  

To set your performance preferences, choose Edit -> Preferences. Choose Performance from the Preferences dialog.

Preferences dialog, Performance section. The context describes the graphic.

Table 7–13 lists the performance settings that you can modify.

Table 7–13 Performance Preferences

Dialog Element 

Description  

Show Text in Icons

Select an option to specify when to preview the content of text files in the icon that represents the file.  

Show Number of Items in Folders

Select an option to specify when to show the number of items in folders. 

Show Thumbnails for Image Files

Select an option to specify when to show thumbnails of image files. Nautilus stores the thumbnail files for each folder in a .thumbnails directory that is one level below the folder.

Do not make thumbnails for files larger than: Specify the maximum file size for files for which Nautilus creates a thumbnail.

Preview Sound Files

Select an option to specify when to preview sound files.