Re: oaf async activation

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On 3 Oct 2000, Mathieu Lacage wrote:

> > I do not think this makes long-term sense in OAF, especially if you are
> > just trying to get a tiny gain in GUI responsiveness during CORBA
> 
> This is not a "tiny gain". Activating mozilla takes 5 to 10 seconds on
> my machine which is a PIII 700 MHz...

That is because mozilla sucks. Go fix mozilla :)

> The UI is blocked for almost 4 to 7 seconds which is unaceptable.
> Also, nautilus on startup spends a lot of its time in there and the
> time for the display of the first window is directly related to this.

I think a simpler fix would just be to get glib loop iterations made while
ORBit is inside an operation invocation. It should be about a one-line
patch to get this in. It should accomplish the desired effect without
having to complicate OAF.

If the program being activated takes way too long to load, you are going
to start getting timeouts inside OAF anyways (to handle stuck programs).

-- Elliot
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