Bug#976334: libgtk-3-0: File choser does not display the list of folders on NFS access

[Simon McVittie]

On Thu, 02 Dec 2021 at 21:43:30 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 11:03 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > It seems that this bug occurs when GtkSearchEngineModel is the only
> > backend returning results, so a workaround is to have have a second
> > search backend available (I don't know what this means specifically, but
> > presumably a full GNOME desktop might have a second backend, otherwise
> > this failure mode would have been seen more often).
> 
> There seems to be a network filesystem component too, which I'd guess
> reduces the likelihood of it being seen quite so often as it would
> otherwise be.

I think it might work something like this:

* it is sufficient to have a single working backned;

* if you're on a "full" GNOME desktop, then you have Tracker, which
  provides a separate search backend;

* or if you're on a local filesystem, then GTK's built-in
  GtkSearchEngineSimple can be used (it disables itself automatically on
  remote filesystems because that would be slow);

* but if you're on NFS *and* you don't have Tracker, then you can
  experience this bug

    smcv