Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

[David Zelinsky <dzpost@dedekind.net>]

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

> Michael Marsh wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Ah. That delay actually occurs when the actual file picker (for lack of
> a better term) displays the /usr/bin directory. 
> 
> The amazing thing is what it's doing. This includes:

[- description of atrocities omitted -]

This being Free Software, couldn't someone (preferably who knows what
they're doing -- i.e. not me) simply change the code so it doesn't do
these silly things?

-David