When doing some research for #292707 came accross this bug. I found that in both Intrepid and Jaunty the disabling the Assistive Technologies (and logging out and in again) makes the problem go away.
-- Nautilus is very slow in list mode with assistive technologies enabled https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159042 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs