[gentoo-user] slow MTP in Thunar, was fine in Gnome

[Raffaele Belardi]

After my recent switch from Gnome to XFCE (both ~amd64) transferring 
files from the smartphone to the desktop via USB/MTP has become 
unbearably slow. From my understanding both Gnome (Nautilus?) and Thunar 
use gnome-base/gvfs which with mtp USE flag pulls in media-libs/libmtp 
so I don't understand why this big change in behavior. Any hints?

This desktop is shared with my youngsters so proposing a switch to ssh 
or adb is not a viable solution, they are more accustomed to pinching 
the screen rather than punching the keyboard...

thanks,

raffaele