Re: Performance (was Re: control-center 2.13.90 released)

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> Hi,
> Do we have a general performance problem currently? My Fedora Rawhide
> (FC5) desktop is slow as hell atm. I thought at first it was a
> distribution/development edition issue, but talking to people running
> Dapper at the office they are experiencing the same. 
>
> One example, starting Totem for the first time takes about 30 seconds on
> my system now. Stopping and restarting totem multiple times lets me get
> that down to around 8-10 seconds. 
>
> Christian
>   
It'd be interesting if you could try changing your theme (I assume you 
are using Clearlooks) to Glider and seeing what difference that makes. 
The Glider theme uses the Smooth engine, which is not currently using 
cairo. Clearlooks on the other hand, is now using cairo almost 
exclusively. If there is a significant difference in speed then we may 
need to look at holding back cairo enabled gtk-engines in GNOME, at 
least until significant speed improvements are made to cairo.

-Thomas