Hi, > > Consider updating your system. > > I just tried this program: > > ----- > #!/usr/bin/python > > for i in range (1, 20000): > file = open ('file%d' % i, 'w') > file.write ('hello world') > file.close () > ------ > > ie. create 20,000 files with some small amount of text in. If I start > gedit and click File / Open, it takes about 2 seconds for the file > browser to appear and about 20 seconds before all the icons have been > drawn. This is gedit 2.28.0 (the one in current Ubuntu) on a > 5-year-old desktop PC. Thank you. I am not sure I will be able to update the system, although I might if I knew it would help. Your experiment above might indicate it would help, but if you could give me a little bit more info please? You say all the icons have been drawn: do you know if your gedit is just displaying two sorts of icons, one for directory, and one for a file? If so, then it doesn't need to open the file to find out what to display. (I have seen this behaviour on gedit version 2.28.3, and this is exactly what I want!). However on gedit 2.12.1 (original version I am talking about) different file icons are being displayed depending on the contents of the file. Could you throw a few other file types into your directory (say some pictures, a .tex or something) to see? If you see different icons, then it would be good to find out how gedit is determining what to display. An 'strace gedit' will tell us. Thanks! Matt _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list