gedit handles loading a lot of files badly

Bug #1527802 reported by Karl-Philipp Richter
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gedit (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
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Bug Description

Opening a lot of files, e.g. running `find . -name '*.c' -exec gedit {} +` in the linux source root causes `gedit` subprocesses to fail (`apport-gtk` dialog pops up) and `gedit` GUI to hang for > 30 minutes.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: gedit 3.10.4-0ubuntu13
Uname: Linux 4.3.0-040300-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Dec 18 23:40:29 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-12-12 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Karl-Philipp Richter (krichter722) wrote :
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 15.10 (wily) reached end-of-life on July 28, 2016.

See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test. If you then find the bug is still present in the newer Ubuntu version, please add a comment here telling us which new version it is in and change the bug status to Confirmed.

Changed in gedit (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
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