Re: control-center 2.13.90 released

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

James Livingston wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:38 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
>   
> > This isn't really the issue. The problem is that the apply procedure 
> > takes more than a second to complete, thus violating the previously 
> > mentioned section of the HIG about instant apply.
> >     
>
> I saw a figure quoted that the average time to apply was 1.4 seconds.
> How did that get evaluated? The machine I'm on at the moment isn't old,
> but it definitely isn't that new either, and it takes under half a
> second to change the background.
>   

I was talking about the theme manager, and asking whether it should also 
be switched to explicit apply. If you could time how long it takes to 
apply a theme on your machine, that would be a useful figure to have.

> One thing I noticed is that the time is greatly affected by whether
> Nautilus is drawing the desktop or not. I normally don't, but when
> turned on the time was up to around a second. Drawing the icons and text
> might take extra time, but is there something Nautilus is doing that
> causes it to go that much slower?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> James "Doc" Livingston
>