Package: libgtk2.0-0 Version: 2.8.10-1 Severity: wishlist Hello,
I wish there were a way force the use of the old file selector, eg. the one used by vim-gtk, instead of the new style selector used by Mozilla now. For fileopen-dialog bashing, see below. Alternatively, it would be enough to disable some operations causing much IO load, maybe something like environment variables: GTK2_FAST_FILE_SELECTOR GTK2_NO_TYPE_GUESSING Reason: the new one is simply braindead. It does not add new important features (bookmarks, fine, almost never needed them), but it is slow like hell. It seems to open every file (see below) in a directory for what reason? To guess it's filetype? OMG, why? Even if I type "/usr/bin/gvim" into Mozilla, it takes about 20 SECONDS? As user, I expect the dialog to just take that f...ing file since I entered it manualy - I know it is a file, it is easy to check that it is a file so I do not need to see another directory listing, I have entered the whole path so just USE IT. Even when browsing trough the FS using this dialog, it feels slow. Why? I don't know which genius has analyzed the user expectation when developing this behaviour model, but if this has been intended to be userfriendly, they failed. In fact, I doubt they have ever made real benchmarks (including time measurement with COLD VFS CACHE) when doing important design decissions. IIRC KDE1.1.x has been working that way, kfm was opening each file and for many seconds the kfm client was stuck when opening a large directory. Apparently it has been improved since then, but other people need to make the same mistakes and get a bloody nose. And meanwhile, it can be that simple. First load the file list, display the simple icons for the files and let the user do its work immediately. In background, start another thread which creates the "nice looking" icons and replaces the first set of icons. I guess everything would be done in 3 seconds and not in 20 so less CPU time is consumed. Eduard. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.1 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages libgtk2.0-0 depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit hi libc6 2.3.5-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcairo2 1.0.2-3 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-bin 2.8.10-1 The programs for the GTK+ graphica ii libgtk2.0-common 2.8.10-1 Common files for the GTK+ graphica ii libjpeg62 6b-11 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime ii libtiff4 3.8.0-2 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System protocol client li ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Input extension li ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System multi-head display ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 X Window System Resize, Rotate and ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra Versions of packages libgtk2.0-0 recommends: ii hicolor-icon-theme 0.8-3 default fallback theme for FreeDes -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
