GtkFileChooserDialog too slow

[Andrew Smith <asmith15 littlesvr ca>]

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.

I implemented a very similar file list using a GtkTreeView in my own 
application and reading the directory, even that large, takes very 
little time (~2 seconds for /usr/bin). I had to make sure the view is 
disconnected from the model before doing the update, but it looks like 
GtkFileChooserDialog is doing something else - because there's a lot of 
hard-drive activity, not just CPU.

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, and the experience 
ranges from annoying to `kill firefox-bin` because I don't have the time 
to wait for the file chooser to say hello to every file.

I have GTK 2.10. Please let me know if there's something I can do to help.

Thanks!

Andrew