[SunHELP] JDS/Gnome Open... Dialog bug?

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu>
" 
" Sandwich Maker wrote:
" > " From: Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa at mcw.edu>
" > " 
" > " On Solaris 10, when I open a folder with lots of files, it takes several 
" > " minutes.  CDE was slow too, but this is much slower.  Has anyone found a 
" > " fix for this.  And, it also pops up in the Adobe Reader since it uses 
" > " those widgets.  Thankfully, many apps use their own Open... dialog.
" > 
" > i have heard many rambling rants about how poorly coded gnome is -
" > hundreds of redundant screen redraws in a single program for example,
" > the result of countless myopic scratch-my-itch linux programmers with
" > no interest in the larger picture.  at one point you had to have an
" > entire working gnome already in order to compile a new rev, because
" > the dependency graph had cycles in it...
" > 
" > i know someone at sun went through the code and cleaned it up -a-lot-
" > in porting it to solaris, but perhaps he just couldn't get it as good
" > as cde [fwiw].  i know it's porkier.
" > ________________________________________________________________________
" > Andrew Hay                                  the genius nature
" 
" Well, CDE is a total dog as well, it's just not as glacial as JDS. 

one of the reasons i still like openwin.  that and i've managed to
bork cde several times running openwin perfmeter under it.  and i
really, really hate that cde1 doesn't permanently reserve application
icon locations.  i commonly have a flock of things running and i
depend on knowing where they are when i close them, but under cde1.x
it's fcfs every time they close.  i believe cde2.x corrected this, but
afaik sun never upgraded.

" However, I now have glorious relief and JDS is working like it should.
" There have been several GNOME patches recently.  I installed them all,
" but I didn't see any difference until I installed the last one:
" 122212-24 GNOME 2.6.0: GNOME Desktop Patch
" (which I see is already obsolete: haven't tried 25 yet).

<sigh> if only they'd release those patches for s8 gnome!  i'm still
on 2.0.0.

" Boy, has anyone noticed that Sun Update Manager is slow as molasses?
" Just trying to look at Installed Updates takes several minutes and 
" actually looking at an individual patch isn't any faster.  Is this 
" another bug?

i've never been able to get it to work here at all.  does it use
secure http?  i've been fetching patches another way [wget scripts]
and couldn't get them to work until i substituted the ip instead of
the domain name for sunsolve.
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