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gtk file selector dialog

Posted Jul 27, 2006 11:13 UTC (Thu) by jbh (subscriber, #494)
In reply to: gtk file selector dialog by joey
Parent article: OLS: On how user space sucks

Yes! 2 minutes to choose an application sounds about right (even if I know the exact path and write it in the Ctrl-L location dialog).

I guess it wouldn't be too hard to work around either, but I really don't want to wade into the flame fest that surrounds the gtk file chooser. So... for now I mostly use opera, at least on slow machines.

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gtk file selector dialog

Posted Jul 28, 2006 15:03 UTC (Fri) by bjornen (guest, #38874) [Link]

> So... for now I mostly use opera, at least on slow machines.

Ouch! opera 9.0-20060616.6 is one of the worst offenders on my computer (a
750MHz P4 laptop (dell i8k)).

top's TIME+ column says it used 24 CPU seconds by the time it's done
loading. After this it continues to steal ~3% CPU by itself and increasing
Xfree86's CPU usage to ~7%.

And this on a fresh install, only 9 tabs opened, the window minimised and
javascript, plugins, et al turned off.

There some surprising blame and constructive criticism in Federico Mena
Quintero's blog -
http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2005-11.html#mo...