I had what appeared to be the same problem: extremely slow deployment of the file selector dialog.
Following a tip on another site, I found that I had no gnome or gtk icon themes installed. So, I installed the following packages: gnome-themes-more gtk2-engines-pixbuf gtk-chtheme gtk2-engines-smooth gtk2-engines-ubuntulooks gtk2-engines That made no difference. Oh well. Then I installed: gnome-themes gnome-themes-extras and found gtk file selector happiness. The Open and Save commands in different programs that use the gtk selector open rapidly. I can't say what this implies for dependencies. But perhaps there is something suggestive in all this. Dan -- -------------- Dan Griswold Rochester, NY -------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org