The main problem is that GtkTreeView behavior makes it impossible. First of all: when a user expands a node GtkTreeView asks me to create iterators for each child, then every child is referenced (accordingly to the manual that means that an item is to be displayed - which is wrong because even if there are 5000 children it's refernecing all of them at once). Then - what is even more ridiculous - I'm asked to provide values for all children elements - which is total madness.
I made similar observations when I tried to write a TreeModel to model a data structure where it takes a long time to retrieve the data for a node - hence you wouldn't want the view to visit a node until necessary. Obviously, the GTK TreeView wasn't designed with this in mind.
I don't have any suggestions other than that I think that patches would be welcome. Apart from the fact that the TreeView is rather complex I think that it would definitely be possible to fix these problems.
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