xfdesktop menu cache

[Olivier]

Hi;

I did not run any real bench, but my guess is that it has to parse all
the .desktop files, and load all the icons. Both cause a lot of I/O.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 22:13, Antonio SJ Musumeci wrote:
> 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.
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