[ltp] Firefox/Thunderbird filepicker solution

[Marius Gedminas]

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On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 03:51:35AM +0000, Richard Neill wrote:
> >>>>BUT, it still takes 25 seconds to appear! There's some sort of timeou=
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> >>>>going on: nothing at all happens for 23 seconds, and then there is=20
> >>>>about 2 sec of disc/cpu activity. Subsequent times are much faster,=
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> >>>>until Fx is restarted.
> >
> >The new GNOME file picker does a scan through all of the current directo=
ry
> >(usually your home) every time it opens. :(  I guess the people that wro=
te
> >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.
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> That can't be it. I'm on a fresh install with a fairly small /home (even=
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>  if it is recursively scanning all subdirectories!). The thing is,=20
> there is no disk activity during this period. It "smells like" a timeout.

Precisely.  My home directory is pretty messy and takes a while to load,
but the file chooser pops up nearly instantly, and I can navigate to
other places (with Ctrl+L, or bookmarks) while it is still loading my
home directory.

Does this timeout also happen when you use the file chooser from other
GNOME applications, not just Firefox and Thunderbird?

Marius Gedminas
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