On 09/06/2015 09:14 AM, Xen wrote:
Thank you for your lengty response. Very helpful.
I've found a way that I can make my system seem as slow as you indicate when using Alt-F2. If you hit Alt-F2, you will (at least in KDE 4 (I'm using 4.14.9) see a wrench in the right side of the pop up window. Clicking the wrench produces a list of plugins that will be used to perform the search. The list is rather extensive. If any of these are internet related, such as the Wikipedia one, or Recent URLs, it seems to load and use those plugins, which can take a long time, depending on your internet connection. By checking everything on that list, I can get the response to key strokes just as slow as you indicate. Then by paring down the list to just those things on my computer that I want it to use, the key stroke processing is very fast. So Point One: Check the wrench, and turn off things that might be searching too far. ------- Now, on to point2: I have turned on Desktop Search on my machine. (gecho, config desktop, desktop search). Baloo and ugly friends are running, and rather well I might add. And further, I've edited /home/[user]/.kde4/share/config/baloofilerc to tell it to index a great deal of the source code I work with daily. Asside: Why is there STILL no tool to do this in yast? Because of this I can type the name of some data element in Alt-F2, and have it find the source code file(s) that use that data name. Clicking any of those found entries opens up kate with that file. Why do I mention this? Well in the list of plugins that Aflt-F2 supports, there is one called Desktop Search. If that is checked, it will try to use the Baloo file search capabilities. But if you have not enabled baloo, I think it falls back to something much slower, like "find" or something. So uncheck the Desktop Search in your list of plugins for Alt-F2, to see if that speeds things up. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org