Alt-F2 "Run Application" slowness vs. Command line applet speedness - gconf?

[Albert Vilella <avilella gmail com>]

Hi,

I repost an issue that makes me feel the gnome desktop could improve
in this aspect:

I'm used to the Alt-F2 "Run Application" shortcut for triggering the
start of an application, but I find very annoying that it takes so
long to show up (usually 3-4 seconds), because of the searching for
available programs that allows for the autocompletion in the text
field. Apparently, this searching process through the directories is
very IO-bounded in terms of responsiveness.

I think this could be improved, by not generating the list of programs
every time, as an option, so that the responsiveness is similar to the
"Command line applet". In this tool, there is a history of the most
used calls, so there is autocompletion for those, and it is ovbiously
faster.

Maybe this is something that could be included in the
"yet-another-option-bag" gconf, and edited via gconftool.

Any comments?

    Albert.


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