title: Preventing gtk FileChooserDialog calling stat on all files in the directory?
body: <p>Opening a gtk FileChooserDialog is painfully slow for nfs directories containing many files. strace shows a lot of time calling "stat". About 5 calls for each of the files in the directory. How can we switch off the calls to 'stat' and just show a list of filenames without the modification time?</p>
  
  <p>We're using operating Redhat enterprise 4, x86_64, Linux 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp and FileChooser is coming from: /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.400.13 . A test program opens a FileChooserDialog and takes 10 seconds to appear, compared to about 25 ms for 'ls' to list the same directory.</p>
  
  <p>Our eclipse application being crippled by this file selector issue... </p>