Re: New Control Centre

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> El lun, 05-02-2007 a las 19:19 +0000, Alex Jones escribi�> It's slow.
>
> Yes.  No one has done any profiling work on it yet.  Want to start?
>
> It's no slower than the old panel menus, which get purged from memory
> after a few minutes --- when popping them up, my laptop churned for
> about 7 seconds before the menus would appear.
>
> > I want my menus back. Changing settings just isn't the quick
> > in-and-out-in-5-seconds-flat job it used to be.
>
> Why are you going into the capplets all the time?  Do we have such a
> shitty system that it needs to be reconfigured regularly and often?
>
> Don't worry about the control center per se; worry about making the
> whole system better so that one does not have to babysit it all the
> time.

If profiling has to be done to make a menu faster, it is pretty obvious
the system it is built on is stupidly inefficient and broken, especially
if said menu is slow on a 10 year old pc.