Smoother startup

[Benedikt Meurer]

Olivier wrote:
> It would be non-blocking at least, with the current implementation, the
> panel and the desktop stay frozen during 30 to 40 seconds at startup
> (even on my P4 2.6GHz)...

The problem here is not the CPU performance, its the I/O bottleneck. This is 
esp. bad when starting from could cache, that is, booting your computer and 
logging into xfce. Therefore I think we should first investigate into 
developing a caching scheme, and then look at ways to further speed up the 
process of generating the menus.

Benedikt

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