On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 16:56 +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote: > * 'strace -eopen ggv' shows that it opens all and every icon which it > can find on the system. As these icons are on /usr/share which are on > an NFS share, this can cause slowdowns. Nevertheless, this is a broken > behavior as only a small subset of the icons will be used by gedit > finally. That's why Owen asked you to run gtk-update-icon-cache. It's a new feature of GTK 2.6 that attempts to solve the icon loading performance problems.