[ltp] Firefox/Thunderbird filepicker solution

[Richard Neill]

>>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>Wow, that would be quite unbearable for me.  Do you have any network
>>>devices bookmarked in your file chooser, or some such?
>>
>>No. It's the default behaviour on at least 2 fresh installs of Mandriva 
>>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.

That can't be it. I'm on a fresh install with a fairly small /home (even 
  if it is recursively scanning all subdirectories!). The thing is, 
there is no disk activity during this period. It "smells like" a timeout.

Richard