xfdesktop menu cache

[Olivier]

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 21:21, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> on a side note, i've been urged to do the menu generation in a separate 
> thread.  i don't think this will buy us anything, because the menu 
> generation is very gtk-heavy, so i'd have to wrap the _entire_ thing in 
> a big gdk_threads_enter()/gdk_threads_leave() pair, and any other 
> gtk-related stuff in the main thread would get blocked anyway.  as it 
> stands, the initial menu generation (when xfdesktop starts) is idled via 
> g_idle_add(), and xfdesktop connects to the session manager before this 
> runs, so it's about as fast as it can be, IMO.  if anyone has any better 
> ideas (aside from rewriting it to be faster - hah), please let me hear 
> them.

I disagree with this point of view. The goal is not necessarily to make
it faster, but to allow the user to use its environment earlier.

Lemme try to explain: I have the menu in the panel and the desktop. When
booting for the first time, the system "feels" frozen for maybe 1 minute
before I can actually run anything. At first, I don't necessarily need
to use the menu, so I wouldn't care if it was loading while I'm able to
start my mail, terminal, browser, and so on, from the regular panel
launchers.

See, I don't want to make it faster (I guess your cache system will do
the job btw, we don't need anything more), I want it to be non blocking
(that's where a separate thread will help).

Cheers,
Olivier.
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