Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-11 Thread Erik Steffl
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 00:27 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: it takes few minutes to open /usr/bin here (almost no load on machine), next time (I assume cache helps a lot) it takes 10-20 seconds. system: debian unstable icedove 1.5.0.9.dfsg1-1 pentium 2.4

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-11 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 15:53 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: Sven Arvidsson wrote: [...] Seems like the problem is getting mime type (as mentioned here before) or something of that nature... erik It would be nice if it was possible to turn this feature off. I really don't need the

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: I really don't need the little pictures in front of the file names. Does anybody? Sure. The typical user GNOME wants to target does. They don't know enough to properly add extensions to their file names without coaxing by the applications, and

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Wim De Smet wrote: ... gnome file chooser discussion snipped ... indeed very annoying) but I don't think it's open()ing every file in those directories. This would require an ordinate amount of processing power not to mention disk I/O which I'm just not seeing. it takes few minutes to open

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 00:27 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: it takes few minutes to open /usr/bin here (almost no load on machine), next time (I assume cache helps a lot) it takes 10-20 seconds. system: debian unstable icedove 1.5.0.9.dfsg1-1 pentium 2.4 GHz 1GB RAM

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-10 Thread celejar
On 1/10/07, Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wim De Smet wrote: ... gnome file chooser discussion snipped ... indeed very annoying) but I don't think it's open()ing every file in those directories. This would require an ordinate amount of processing power not to mention disk I/O which I'm

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-06 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/5/07, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wim De Smet wrote: You're saying two things here. First you're saying it open()'s every file you come across, then you say it lists every directory. I've noticed it does list all files in a directory on the path you type (which on a system with

[OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-05 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Friday 05 January 2007 08:02, Geoff Reidy wrote: Googling gnome file picker gives you a fair idea what people think of it. But wait, I just found a way to stop iceweasel using it, add this to user.js: The GNOME file picker is so bad, I'd rather run Firefox on Windows XP in Qemu than use

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-05 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/5/07, Wesley J. Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 05 January 2007 08:02, Geoff Reidy wrote: Googling gnome file picker gives you a fair idea what people think of it. But wait, I just found a way to stop iceweasel using it, add this to user.js: The GNOME file picker is so bad,

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007, Wim De Smet wrote: To be honest, I actually like it. The newest incarnation of it anyway. I think all those hits you'll come up will be at least partly based on the older one, which had a bit too many big buttons and a bit too little functionality. No, you got it wrong.

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-05 Thread Wim De Smet
On 1/5/07, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 05 Jan 2007, Wim De Smet wrote: To be honest, I actually like it. The newest incarnation of it anyway. I think all those hits you'll come up will be at least partly based on the older one, which had a bit too many big

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 08:43 -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: On Friday 05 January 2007 08:02, Geoff Reidy wrote: Googling gnome file picker gives you a fair idea what people think of it. But wait, I just found a way to stop iceweasel using it, add this to user.js: The GNOME file picker

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-05 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 05:38:15PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: I don't really like the concept of file pickers at all, but as far as they go, the GNOME one is probably one of the best ones I've used. Could you list some advantages that counter the Requires three times as many clicks as all

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 11:42 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: Could you list some advantages that counter the Requires three times as many clicks as all other file pickers problem? Oh, and the displays information in tiny subwindows that don't relate to each other in obvious ways problem? Or the What

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-05 Thread Joey Hess
Wim De Smet wrote: You're saying two things here. First you're saying it open()'s every file you come across, then you say it lists every directory. I've noticed it does list all files in a directory on the path you type (which on a system with sufficient ram only goes slow once but is indeed