+/**
+ * If the passed item view is an instance of QListView, expensive
+ * layout operations are blocked in the constructor and are unblocked
+ * again in the destructor.
+ *
+ * This helper class is a workaround for the following huge performance
+ * problem when having directories with several 1000 items:
+ * - each change of an icon emits a dataChanged() signal from the model
+ * - QListView iterates through all items on each dataChanged() signal
+ * and invokes QItemDelegate::sizeHint()
+ * - the sizeHint() implementation of KFileItemDelegate is quite complex,
+ * invoking it 1000 times for each icon change might block the UI
+ *
+ * QListView does not invoke QItemDelegate::sizeHint() when the
+ * uniformItemSize property has been set to true, so this property is
+ * set before exchanging a block of icons. It is important to reset
+ * it to false again before the event loop is entered, otherwise QListView
+ * would not get the correct size hints after dispatching the layoutChanged()
+ * signal.
+ */
+class LayoutBlocker {
+public:
+ LayoutBlocker(QAbstractItemView* view) : m_view(0)
+ {
+ if (view->inherits("QListView")) {
+ m_view = qobject_cast<QListView*>(view);
+ m_view->setUniformItemSizes(true);
+ }
+ }
+
+ ~LayoutBlocker()
+ {
+ if (m_view != 0) {
+ m_view->setUniformItemSizes(false);
+ }
+ }
+
+private:
+ QListView* m_view;
+};
+