Open dialog becomes nonresponsive
Lately, the Open dialog gets nonresponsive until I Cancel and try again.
Version: 3.36.2 and one or more version/s that were supplied in the brief period before. Once the problem began, it hasn't stopped.
STR:
- Have gedit open with a saved file already open, preferably a file that's not loose in the root.
- Edit the file. Probably not much is needed. Save your edit, even if the net change was nothing (i.e., don't just edit and undo all so no saving is needed).
- Give the Open command (ctrl-o).
- Navigate somewhere.
- If it stops responding (e.g., you can't navigate with up/down arrow keys or by clicking on a folder), observe if the breadcrumbs are slightly dimmed (this may be difficult to see and is intermittent); if you haven't navigated at all, also notice if the dialog shows no files in the current folder even though you know there is at least one file (this effect is intermittent).
- If it stopped responding, click the Cancel button.
- Give the Open command (ctrl-o) and try again to open another file. Usually, you'll get farther and you may succeed on the second attempt. I don't think I've experienced a regression; every attempt progresses farther than the last or goes all the way to success.
You may find the the up/down arrow keys seem nonresponsive but that a second or two later they catch up to your arrow taps.
The STR may include too many steps. Perhaps it can be trimmed and still produce the problem.
The problem does not occur with the Save As dialog, even in gedit.
The problem does not occur with other software. For example, the Firefox 75.0 browser's Open dialog to navigate to or open the same .html files does not exhibit the same problem. Therefore, while the problem behaves like a hardware problem, the problem is in gedit. If other apps use the same technology gedit uses to support the Open dialog, I don't know which apps those are.
It's not a critical bug, but it gives the impression of gedit or the hardware being broken.