xfdesktop menu cache

[Antonio SJ Musumeci]

1 minute seems like an awful long time to be parsing and loading some
icons. Have you taken a look at anyone elses code doing the same?

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 22:25:55 +0200
Olivier <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:

> 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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