Re: [Evolution] slow composer

["Ujwal S. Sathyam" <ujwal netbrowser com>]

Even on a 1.3 GHz P4, the delay is about 3-4 seconds.

Ujwal

On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 11:56, dpeterso ne orst edu wrote:
> 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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