[ltp] Firefox/Thunderbird filepicker solution

Mike Kershaw linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:28:43 -0500


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On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 10:04:23PM +0000, Richard Neill wrote:
> That is quite useful. Typical GNOME to make something like this=20
> invisible though.
>=20
> BUT, it still takes 25 seconds to appear! There's some sort of timeout=20
> going on: nothing at all happens for 23 seconds, and then there is about=
=20
> 2 sec of disc/cpu activity. Subsequent times are much faster, until Fx=20
> 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.

-m

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Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <dragorn@kismetwireless.net>
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Be different: conform.

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