Re: [Evolution] slow composer

[<dpeterso ne orst edu>]

On 20 Dec 2001, Larry Ewing had this to say:

> On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 12:45, dpeterso ne orst edu wrote:
> > I have a small wish, but don't know what category to file under. 
> > When composing a new message, it takes "forever" (>3 sec.) for the compose 
> > mail window to appear.  This is ridiculous.  Of course, I'm on a PII-233 
>
> The slow startup is a bonobo problem.  I think it is mainly time spent
> in the bonobo UI menu routines.  There is already a bug in bugzilla and
> I think Michael Meeks has been actively working on the problem.

Huh.  I looked in bugzilla, but didn't see this.  Of course, I didn't look 
under Bonobo...glad to hear that it is being worked on, though.

> > Why does a new composer window have to be spawned every time? Put 
> > another way, why does sending a message close the composer rather than 
> > just clearing the text.  It seems that only spwning the composer once 
>
> If you open a composer window and keep it open, subsequent windows
> should be much faster opening.  Until this is fixed I hope that helps.

But, sending a message closes the composer window!  SO you're saying that 
I should just open a blank window and keep it around whilst I do 
subsequent composings?  However, that doesn't really help, either.  The 
delay time is now 2-2.5 seconds instead of 3-5. <shrug>   Thanks for the 
idea anyway.

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