Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 00:27 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
> >    it takes few minutes to open /usr/bin here (almost no load on 
> > machine), next time (I assume cache helps a lot) it takes 10-20 seconds.
> >
> >    system:
> >      debian unstable
> >      icedove 1.5.0.9.dfsg1-1
> >      pentium 2.4 GHz
> >      1GB RAM
> >
> >    do you think I should file a bug? against what? where?
>
> I found a bug dealing directly with opening /usr/bin,
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322314
>
> There is also a few links to performance related bugs here,
> http://live.gnome.org/GtkFileChooser

  yeah, this one in particular seems relevant:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310642

  However they all seem to think that it's all because the directory is 
read (to be able to autocomplete etc.) which is not entirely true cause 
bash autocompletes as well yet I cannot seem to be able to make it stall 
on directories with few thousand files (local disk).

  Seems like the problem is getting mime type (as mentioned here 
before) or something of that nature...

	erik