xfdesktop menu cache

[Antonio SJ Musumeci]

Why is menu generation taking so long?

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 22:04:48 +0200
Olivier <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:

> 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.
> -- 
>  - Olivier Fourdan - fourdan at xfce.org - http://www.xfce.org - 
> 
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