One contrast between Spartacus and Lysistrata:

Lysistrata seems to"populate" a file with file icons much faster than in
Spartacus. This may be a subjective impression (hard to pin down since I'm using the two versions on different boxes). But: I notice that the regular-user file icons in Lysistrata seem to be the same ones as the root file icons in Spartacus (not the same as the regular-user icons). And in my Spartacus install, file icons populate *much* faster in root than in regular-user mode.

What I'd like is to get my file icons in regular-user mode in Spartacus to populate as fast as they do in root mode, or as fast as they do in regular mode in Lysistrata. It almost looks as though a different file manager is being used, or more likely it's a difference in style selection?

I'll fiddle with this to find a tweak. But any suggestions would be appreciated. (More speed is always better...)

Just a note to say that I have noticed the same thing.

The slow image filing in Spartacus using rox as user was a 'bug' and I think it was how Ubuntu packages rox.

The debian rox in Lysistrata is the one that works properly.