In an environment with too many AP's, wicd-gtk displays "no wireless networks"

[tostiheld]

At my uni library there are a LOT of AP's. So I was really suprised when i saw the message "no wireless networks" when trying to connect to the WiFi network. After some research on the code located at https://github.com/dpaleino/wicd (dont know if this is legit), I discovered wicd uses iwlist. Iwlist has the problem that if there are too many AP's, it returns "too many arguments" after scanning (can't find the source for that atm, sorry).
So i suspect that that is where the faulty message comes from. Now i don't know where to report bugs for iwlist, so i propose a different solution: use the iw tool . I don't know if this is possible without a mayor overhaul, so it's just a suggestion. If I use the commands "iw dev wlan0 scan trigger" and "iw dev wlan0 scan dump", scanning for wireless networks at my uni works fine.

Wicd version: 1.7.2.4
relevant part of the log file is attached (let me know if the complete beast is needed)
Linux distro: Debian 8.2 Jessie