Re: [Evolution] Slow composing mail

[Nick Jenkins <nickpj gmail com>]

> I'm tired of waiting while trying to compose a new e-mail in
> Evolution. I just press the "New" button, and it appears to be working
> behind, but it's only after at least 15 seconds that it throws the
> compose screen. My version of Evolution is 2.26.1, and I'm using it
> in Ubuntu 9.04 jaunty, through a ltsp thin client.

I'm not using remote X, and it takes (or feels like it takes) about 3
seconds on the very first "new" mail button click, and about 1.5 to 2
seconds thereafter. It's enough time to start questioning whether the
click was detected or not, and then feel a sense of relief when the
window pops up.
Save version of Evo and Ubuntu, on a reasonably decent machine (Intel
Q6600 quad core using as a 64-bit platform, 4 GB RAM, nvidia PCIe
graphics, SATA HDDs, etc).
I would expect it to be a little faster than 1.5 to 3 seconds, so I kind
of wonder what it's doing in that time; maybe if the local case was a
bit faster (e.g. 1 second max, half a second on average) then the remote
case would be better too? I do have some compiz eye-candy enabled
(System -> Appearance -> Visual Effects is set to "Normal"), don't know
if that's relevant or not. But I don't see any delay that's approaching
15 seconds.

-- All the best,
Nick.