Re: GTK apps very slow to launch

[Michael Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>]

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 22:54 -0400, Richard Querin wrote:
> I've since downloaded a few other packages. I'm not 100% sure what's
> gtk related and what's not. But Audacity is loading in about 3
> seconds. Xmms launches in about 2 seconds and the python IDLE editor
> launches in about 1 second. I'm assuming these are not GTK2 apps.
> These launch times are about 3 times quicker than when I launch Gedit,
> GCalctool or the Terminal in Ubuntu. 

What happens if, say Gedit is already running?  In that case the GTK
libraries are already in memory. Does running another GTK app (say "gtk-
demo") still load slowly?  Also Gedit is a gnome program, so it has to
load gtk and the gnome libraries.  You'll want to run your tests on pure
gtk2 apps and then add variables.

Audacity is a wxGTK app (probably gtk1), Xmms is GTK1 and Python IDLE is
Qt (and python).  Not surprising Qt apps load quick as Qt is in memory
due probably to your KDE desktop (what desktop are you running, anyway?)

On my Gnome desktop, all KDE apps take 3-6 seconds to load since the
libraries are not in memory.  Whereas gnome and gtk apps are practically
instant.

Michael


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