[SOLVED]Gnome "save as" menu very slow

I am experiencing terrible performance in Gnome while trying to save some file and choosing the directory for the file. It happens in every application (downloading files in Firefox, saving files created in any app etc.). This was the case with every version of Gnome that I used so far, but it's unbearable with 2.24. The CPU load jums to 100% and the process of changing directories is painful.
Last edited by ux&lx (2009-02-04 09:12:44)

This is caused by icon themes that use the SVG format. The drawing routine for the icons in that dialogue is dumb and makes drawing various small icons in SVG a pain. So, convert icons to PNG instead (I already told the author of elementary icons to save as PNG for smaller sizes too).

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