[ltp] Firefox/Thunderbird filepicker solution

[Richard Neill]

Mike Kershaw wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 10:04:23PM +0000, Richard Neill wrote:
> 
>>That is quite useful. Typical GNOME to make something like this 
>>invisible though.
>>
>>BUT, it still takes 25 seconds to appear! There's some sort of timeout 
>>going on: nothing at all happens for 23 seconds, and then there is about 
>>2 sec of disc/cpu activity. Subsequent times are much faster, until Fx 
>>is restarted.
> 
> 
> if I recall, the gnome file widget thrashes the filesystem running stat
> calls on everything in your home dir.  It's going to be slow.
> 
> 
That's the odd thing. There is no activity (no disk, no cpu) for 25 
seconds. Then it thrashes for about 2.

Anyway, it's far too slow. Is there a good way to write some sort of 
wrapper such that any application which tries to use the GTK filepicker 
actually gets the KDE one instead?

Richard