xfdesktop menu cache

[Olivier]

Nope, I did not take a look at that code, not including Xfce (I trust
Brian when he says it can't be made faster)

The "1 minute" is not just the menu parsing, it's the overall startup
time, between the time I log in and the time I can use the environment,
which means that the parsing is definitely a lot less than that.


Cheers,
Olivier.

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 22:36, Antonio SJ Musumeci wrote:
> 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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