Re: [PATCH] speed up stock icon registration (was: Improving Nautilus startup time)

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 3/9/06, Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org> wrote:
>
> The attached patch ensures that we don't hardcode any pixels/icon sizes
> and don't lookup any stock icons during icon registration, but just add
> all the stock icon names we need to the factory. Measuring with a GTimer
> I could reduce the icon registration to rougly 1/4 of the former time,
> mostly because the gtk_icon_theme_lookup_icon calls are quite expensive.
> I don't know whether it buys us much to delay the icon size lookups
> until they're actually needed, but the Nautilus startup feels
> significantly faster with the patch applied.
>

It would be good to understand what this particular nautilus code is trying
to achieve in the first place. Why does it need to manually register
icon sources ?

Matthias