On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 14:02 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 12:43:59PM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 12:04 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 01:42:15PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > > Dave Jones (davej@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > > > It doesn't strike you that something might be amiss that a 1GHz CPU > > > > > can't display a menu quick enough ? Shuffling the problem under the rug > > > > > isn't the way to fix this. Find out why it's taking so long, and fix that. > > > > > > > > It's scanning the desktop files, almost certainly. > > > > > > If that's the case, it has no excuse for doing so now that we have > > > inotify. It amazes me how much fuss the gnome people made about that > > > feature and how it really absolutely must get into the kernel. > > > > > > It'd be great if stuff actually used it. > > > > gnome-menus uses gamin for notification, which uses inotify. The problem > > is that inotify sucks when it comes to nonexisting files > > Can't you add a watch on the directory, and get notification when > a file gets added that way? > Sure. But if that directory is a busy one like, say, $HOME, then you get a lot of unnecessary wakeups. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
