I've added gconf keys (in gok head):
apps->gok->spy->gui_search_breadth
apps->gok->spy->gui_search_depth

Note you must do a make install and restart your gconfd, or log out
and back in.  GOK often needs to interrogate the active application or
window for certain gui elements.  These keys describe a maximum
breadth to search (at any node), and the maximum depth to search when
walking the gui tree. We need to find the magic values that work with
all apps.

Also, we need to explore improving the search algorithm pruning.

(added dependancies)

Apologies for spam... marking as GNOMEVER2.3 so it appears on the official GNOME
bug list :)

I don't expect changing the search depth will help much for most
applications.

Adding dependacy for bug 133385: "Performance is slow when using GOK
with 'File types and Programs' application"

marking 'AP4' to indicate triage, but as a tracker bug without an urgent
use-case, we don't need this on the global a11y radar.

Apologies for spam-- ensuring Sun a11y team are cc'ed on all current a11y bugs.
 Filter on "SUN A11Y SPAM" to ignore.

David and I decided that this tracker wasn't serving much purpose since we have
a 'performance' category in which these bugs are already logged.  So we're
closing the tracker, leaving the other bugs open.