On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 10:09 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 12/15/2009 06:33 AM, Will Stephenson wrote:
Was the presence of this dynamic menu cache an interesting feature for you compared to other WMs/lightweight DEs or also compared to KDE/GNOME?
Will, yes it was and you can tell the difference immediately in the crispness of the menus. This is especially true in a lot of the lightweight desktop using xdg-menu, dmenu, wall-menu or the like. With the number of packages installed today, without a cache, you have a lot of perceptible "lag" time between clicking on the menu and the menu appearing. Anything over a 1/4 second and you really notice, you get to 1/2 and you find yourself waiting...
I have a generous number of packages installed on my openSUSE system, and I have always felt that their presence in the KDE menu is incredibly incomplete (not to mention poorly organized). I would guess that maybe 5% of the GUI apps are in the menu system. Since it is so sparse, it is amazing that it is also so slow. One would expect a cache to result in some speed improvement. I would hate to think what it might be like if (1) there was no cache and (2) all installed GUI apps were actually present. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org