On 31 March 2010 20:43, <m.c.wilkins@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Yes, it sniffs each file to determine the file type. If it was simply displaying a list of filenames it would be quite a bit quicker still. For example, if I look at a directory containing an a.out I see a funny blue square as an icon. If I rename it to "aaaargh", the blue icon stays. John _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list