[Evolution] Gnome-Panel/EDS & the Clock Applet

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow Mun Heng wdc com>]

So.. I just had a fight with the clock applet. It's eating up so much
resources and it's _so_ slow. From the time when I click on it till the
time when the calender comes up can be as long as 2 minutes! (and it's
eating up _a_ lot of memory when it tries to do that. My CPU resource
goes 100% and my memory usage goes up. (and even hits swap on my 1.5GB
RAM 1.4Ghz laptop)

It seems that the clock applet keeps loading up evo-exch-storage to get
to my exchange calender. I've tried to remove any references to my
exchange calender via Evo->Calender (uncheck the exchange calenders) and
even tried to change preferences in the clock-applet(and found that
there is no such option)

Googling found references about that being discussed in the arch list.
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch/2006-January/008134.html

While I do like to have access to my calender (at a tip of a button),
getting it while my resources are being tapped isn't all too nice. So, I
believe I have 2 options.

1. Recompile/upgrade gnome-panel (from 2.12.2 to 2.12.3)
2. Remove EDS support from Gnome-panel (which is an easy thing in
Gentoo)

I'm going to do those in the sequence above.

IMHO, there should just be an option box for me to select if I want to
have EDS support within the clock-applet.

But then, it's just me.



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Ow Mun Heng <Ow Mun Heng wdc com>