[ltp] Firefox/Thunderbird filepicker solution

[Sean Dague]

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On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:15:40AM +0000, Richard Neill wrote:
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> >That is quite useful. Typical GNOME to make something like this=20
> >>invisible though.
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> >>BUT, it still takes 25 seconds to appear! There's some sort of timeout=
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> >>2 sec of disc/cpu activity. Subsequent times are much faster, until Fx=
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> >Wow, that would be quite unbearable for me.  Do you have any network
> >devices bookmarked in your file chooser, or some such?
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> No. It's the default behaviour on at least 2 fresh installs of Mandriva=
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> 2006. ! Also true in Thunderbird.

The new GNOME file picker does a scan through all of the current directory
(usually your home) every time it opens. :(  I guess the people that wrote
this have much more organized home directories than the rest of us, as it
consistently takes ~ 30 seconds to come up on my laptop as well.

	-Sean

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