Performance issue with icons

[sanyatuning]

I read in one issue disabling icons would help with a long list.
I changed the icon size to 0 and now the speed is acceptable, but I am thinking isn't there any alternative solution?
I don't know Vala and GTK but in React we usually use virtualized lists when there is a large dataset.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3164262/lazy-loaded-list-view-in-gtk

Another idea is just to limit the items shown to a reasonable limit (ex. 100) and the user can use the search bar to search for what they need.

[kgilmer]

Hi @sanyatuning , there have been some improvements in this regard in Regolith 2.2. Have you had a chance to see if the update improves your experience? Also, there is an experimental change that I'm looking for someone to test, if you're able to build from source: https://github.com/regolith-linux/ilia/tree/app-load-optimization