Calculations momentarily freeze Nautilus

[nicolas-raoul]

It seems that calculating EXIF information blocks other aspects of Nautilus.

In real-world usage, most of the time I use Nautilus to browse, read or modify pictures, and only relatively rarely do I need to pay attention to Commons status.

The extension should let Nautilus run at full speed, and perform expensive calculations in a different thread, possibly with a lower priority.

This question about speeding up a Nautilus Python extension says:

Since nautilus-python 0.7 are available update_file_info_full and cancel_update, which allows you to program async calls. You can check the documentation of Nautilus 0.7 for more details.