A couple of annoying F8t3 things

[Caolan McNamara]

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 16:56 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> I've noticed two annoying issues in f8t3.
> 
> 1. Applications seems to take quite a while to 'appear' on the desktop.
> After clicking an application on the panel (gedit, gnome-terminal, etc)
> it takes about 10 secs for them to appear on the desktop.
> 
> 2. Evolution (particularly compose) seems to 'pause' for 10 seconds or
> so every now and then and it becomes unresponsive.  Makes typing emails
> a pain in the bum (and I've seen it three times in this short email.)
> 
> I'm going to bz these, but we wondering if others have seen this too.

I've sometimes seen stuff like that happen with slightly busted
networking or something, i.e. strace -f gedit from a terminal and see if
it is blocking a long time on /tmp/.ICE-unix/XXXX and compare startup
time of apps before after after deleting /tmp/.ICE-unix/XXXX

C.