On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 5:34 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@opengroupware.us> wrote:
Witness [after stopping Tomboy, removing it from the panel]
$ sync $ sleep 2 # Allow the sync to drain $ sudo /bin/sh -c "/bin/echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" $ time tomboy --version
Hey folks, upstream Tomboy maintainer here. Sorry for being late to the party. A few points: 1) Timing tomboy --version isn't very helpful, since the slowest parts of starting Tomboy are not even run then. 2) In Tomboy 1.1.1, startup performance has been improved and the icon appears in about 0.5 seconds on my system. Tomboy may do slightly more work after that time if it is going to show previously-open notes, or bring up the Search All Notes window. 3) I would be very interested in bootchart2 results or anything else that shows data related to Tomboy startup. There is always room for more improvement. GNOME 3 will change things, of course. One thing I'm hoping to do is to work on a spec (similar to Windows 7 Jumplists, which are in turn very similar to the Tomboy note menu) that will enable me to completely get rid of the Tomboy applet/trayicon, and have the menu available without Tomboy even having to be running. This would make the whole argument rather moot. :-) Please don't hesitate to contact me directly if there are any concerns that you think can be addressed by upstream fixes. I'm an openSUSE user, Novell employee, and GNOME developer, so chances are if you are worried about something (like startup time) I'd be impacted by it as well, and motivated to fix it. Of course, if it's a question of whether or not the feature is one we want to keep in openSUSE, that's a different story. But I vote for "keep it". ;-) Cheers, Sandy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org