Re: GtkFileChooserDialog too slow

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 19:27 -0400, Andrew Smith wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Try to navigate to /usr/bin using a no-frills GtkFileChooserDialog. My 
> computer is a bit old, but it's far from being obsolete and it sometimes 
> takes minutes (!!) to display that directory.

because it needs to sniff every file for its MIME type, as files
in /usr/bin have no extension to use the dumb
"use-the-extension-as-hint-of-MIME-type" algorithm to display an icon.

hence the slowness.

> Will you please fix it? I need to navigate to /usr/bin once in a while 
> to select what app to open files with from Firefox

solutions:

  * ask firefox developers to write something using gnome-vfs to get the
    applications that can open a given MIME type;
  * ask firefox developers to write something that doesn't require the
    user to manually select the binary of an application;
  * use epiphany, which is a sane and integrated web browser and
    it doesn't expose this kind of crappy UI.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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