On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 14:30 +1000, Magnus Boman wrote: > Federico, > > Looking at the page http://live.gnome.org/GnomePerformance/LoginTime you > want to patch Nautilus to see when the Desktop is loaded and painted. > Would it be possible to see this via strace? If that's the case, it > should be easy to use strace and fifo in combination with a script to > see when it's done? Doesn't strace drastically affect performance? I thought the goal was to see how long these parts of the login process take under normal conditions. > If the above is true, the I guess the same goes for gnome-panel and > gnome-session? > > Cheers, > Magnus > > On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 08:34 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > > El vie, 06-04-2007 a las 18:34 +1000, Andrew Cowie escribió: > > > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:09 +0100, Iain * wrote: > > > > The desktop is just another window, but a special cased one with no > > > > toolbars, statusbars etc. > > > > > > Once upon a time X had the notion of a root window and an image or > > > pattern could be placed upon it. Does nautilus [not] use this? > > > > Advantages of using the root window: > > > > - It's just there. > > > > Disadvantages of using the root window: > > > > - Multi-visual X servers (especially ancient ones from Sun, HP, SGI, > > etc.) like to use an 8-bit pseudocolor visual for the root window. GTK+ > > prefers to run in 24-bit truecolor if available. Having to manage > > different visuals is painful and error-prone, and you don't want ugly > > 8-bit dithering on your desktop background anyway. > > > > - You can't easily have different backgrounds on each screen or virtual > > desktop. > > > > - It's harder for Nautilus to hang GTK+ widgets from the root window; it > > prefers a normal toplevel. > > > > - The Window Manager Spec already has provisions for such > > desktop-background windows, so window managers know how to handle them. > > If a window manager [particularly Enlightenment] wants to have its own > > concept of a "virtual root window", it can accomodate Nautilus easily. > > > > Federico > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Performance-list mailing list > > Performance-list gnome org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/performance-list > > _______________________________________________ > Performance-list mailing list > Performance-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/performance-list -- Michael R. Head <burner suppressingfire org> http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/ http://suppressingfire.livejournal.com
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