FC4 GNOME 2.10 a bit slow on Toshiba Satellite A40

[Nils Philippsen]

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 14:32 -0400, Zack Cerza wrote:
> hackmiester wrote:
> > That's interesting... it does that to me, also it does it when I hit
> > Alt-F2 and begin typing.
> > This problem is nonexistent with KDE, which I use most of the time
> > anyway. I've got a P4/Centrino 1.6gHz with an ATI Radeon Mobility
> > 9000.
> 
> I believe that particular case is because of the autocomplete code,
> which for some reason is extremely slow, at least for the first time
> it's used in a session.

I think the auto-completion and menu generation should be done
completely asynchronously, i.e. non-blocking. I can wait for the
suggestion of auto-completion or icons in the menu, but I don't want to
wait for things I type or display of the menu.

Nils
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