filesystem: avoid blocking
Submitted by Guillaume Emont (guijemont)
Assigned to gri..@..e.bugs
Link to original bug (#639838)
Description
The filesystem plugin does a lot of blocking calls in the main thread. These could hamper the responsiveness of the user application's UI.
GIO's async methods could be used to fix this issue (they run in a separate thread). This is already done for _search()
Version: git master