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Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs



On 6/14/06, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
Michael Marsh wrote:
> Where the suckitude of the new GTK file picker really shines is when
> you need to specify that a file should be opened with a program in
> /usr/bin.  Unless they've fixed that recently.  I really don't like
> typing "/usr/bin/xine" and then waiting a minute for the "OK" button
> to become clickable.  Well, perhaps not a full minute, but on a 1GHz
> laptop it's an excruciatingly long wait nonetheless.

Hmm, on my 1.3 ghz laptop it was under 2 tenths of a second (from dry
cache).

About 27s for me.  I type in the path and click "OK" for the small
dialog that pops up when you start typing.  It's then about 27s before
that dialog goes away and I can click "OK" on the actual file picker.

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Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
http://mamarsh.blogspot.com



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