[Gambas-user] Gambas IDE in open project scanning entire home directory

[richard terry]

when using the IDE, gambas takes an extraordinary long time to open the 
"Open Project" dialog

using "strace -e stat gambas3" I can see gambas3 is doing something 
rather strange: it's stating every file recursively throughout the home 
directory, which on my machine takes an unusably long time due to tens 
of thousands of files (i.e. we have given up waiting for the dialog box 
to hold, and have had to create anew user on the system with the minimum 
files in their home directory)

this is the same on two systems (mine and Ian Haywood's) gambas 3.5.3 
and 3.5.2, Linux Mint 14 (Nadia)

thanks

Richard

this is standard stuff:

stat("/etc/cups/ppd/HL-5240-series.ppd", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, 
st_size=22415, ...}) = 0
stat("/etc/cups/ppd/HL-5240-series.ppd", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, 
st_size=22415, ...}) = 0
stat("/usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts-japanese-gothic.ttf", 
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=6234746, ...}) = 0
stat("/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/lmcsc10.pfb", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, 
st_size=116427, ...}) = 0
stat("/usr/share/gambas3/examples", 0x7fffb1cc8ba0) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
file or directory)
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0
stat("/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2183, ...}) = 0

---> and here's were the insanity starts

stat("/home/richard/mybackup", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, 
...}) = 0
stat("/home/richard/.texmf-var", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, 
...}) = 0
stat("/home/richard/may14-2-1.txt", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, 
st_size=17265, ...}) = 0
stat("/home/richard/My_Video", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, 
...}) = 0
stat("/home/richard/.lyx", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat("/home/richard/tempproject", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, 
...}) = 0
stat("/home/richard/pgadmin.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=35895, 
...}) = 0
stat("/home/richard/.thunderbird", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, 
...}) = 0
stat("/home/richard/Ms-Joan-Blogss_workcover.pf.pdf", 
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=160724, ...}) = 0
stat("/home/richard/test.aux", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
stat("/home/richard/plan.pdf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=85230, 
...}) = 0
stat("/home/richard/.project", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1144, 
...}) = 0
stat("/home/richard/more_create_db_bugs", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, 
st_size=1568, ...}) = 0
stat("/home/richard/plan2.pdf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=85247, 
...}) = 0
stat("/home/richard/.mplayer", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, 
...}) = 0
stat("/home/richard/.ICEauthority", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, 
st_size=129458, ...}) = 0
stat("/home/richard/.googleearth", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, 
...}) = 0
stat("/home/richard/test-description.log", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, 
st_size=2589, ...}) = 0