Why does the Gnome file manager take AGES to copy files?

I had to right-click to open as admin to copy Gnome icon themes to /usr/share/icons (but yes, I know the screenshot is from unzipping because I thought downloading straight into that folder and unzipping would be faster, but it isn’t).

Not only does it take forever, I also have to enter my password for (I think) every folder it creates.

Why is it like this?

Doing the same via the terminal is near instant, but I thought this was the year of the Linux desktop? :wink:

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I profiled it, and it seems to be wasting the vast majority of time in DBus invocations.

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I uncovered an issue with admin backend: Admin backend Mount Cache Doesn't Work (#779) · Issues · GNOME / gvfs · GitLab

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