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

[Ian Campbell]

On Sun, 2021-12-26 at 19:22 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> 
> I think it might work something like this:

That sounds very plausible.

Ian.

> * 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
>