On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 10:33 -0500, Bryen wrote:
I'm sure the slowness of Application Browser and Alt+F2 are related. (Nautilus?)
Sure - it's a pretty fundamental problem of the job it does - parsing a ton of (often) huge .desktop files - with lots of translations merged into them, which are carefully scattered all over the disk - and get more fragmented as you upgrade apps, and the seek latency that involves. Of course, if you use an SSD system, one of the things that is most noticable is that Alt-F2 becomes almost instant, regardless of system age - due to the much reduced seek time. The only real solution here is to cache some pre-parsed form of all the installed .desktop files, in some sane format somewhere; I believe KDE do this in ~/ somewhere. # cold(ish) start: $ time (for a in `find /usr/share/applications -name '*.desktop'`; do cat $a > /dev/null; done;) real 0m4.392s user 0m0.356s sys 0m0.552s # warm: $ time (for a in `find /usr/share/applications -name '*.desktop'`; do cat $a > /dev/null; done;) real 0m0.706s user 0m0.280s sys 0m0.380s HTH, Michael. -- michael.meeks@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org