gedit 3.2.1 File Browser Pane plugin slow and unresponsive

Question

So i have never really had issues with the File Browser Plugin before but since updating to Ubuntu 11.10 , the version of gEdit i have is version 3.2.1. In this plugin I have bookmarks set up for an ssh session.

After connecting to the remote host in the File Browser Plugin , if I try to open a directory that contains more than 100 files, gedit becomes unresponsive and what used to be a 10-15 second operation now is a 3-5 minute operation to be able to access those files. It only seems to be a problem when accessing remote directories. Any local directories open instantly.

Has something changed with the new gEdit , or the File Browser Plugin , or both? Also is there any way to resolve this issue?

There must be some kind of complex indexing which is causing the longer delay. And I would not be surprised if the new GTK3 Toolkit had something to do with this. But does anyone know why this is happening?

Answer 1

I just installed the latest version of Ubuntu 12.04 . It comes preinstalled with gEdit 3.4.1 . Now the File Browser Plugin is very responsive and loads 100s of files in just seconds. Good Work Shuttleworth.