On Fri, 05 Jan 2007, Wim De Smet wrote:
> To be honest, I actually like it. The newest incarnation of it anyway.
> I think all those hits you'll come up will be at least partly based on
> the older one, which had a bit too many big buttons and a bit too
> little functionality.
No, you got it wrong. It is kind of an Outlook(tm) problem: the engine below
it is fubar, regardless of the UI. The file-picker tries to open() and read
a part of every file to run it through mime-magic or whatever, which is
*extremely slow*.
I think they problably made it smart enough not to do it on special inodes,
otherwise it would crap your system instantly if you tried to list /dev or
in places where there are unix sockets and named pipes ;-)
The fact that the file-picker it is also (IMO) a power-user detrimental
design that requires more clicks to do something a proper file-picker would
let you do with fewer is far more easily tolerated than the few secods wait
it causes when trying to list a big directory.