Re: nautilus startup / linking bits ...

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 16:24 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> 	I was just looking at nautilus - fighting for a proportion of my CPU on
> login, and I was interested to see all the plugin initialisation we do
> before rendering the desktop; eg. the totem preferences page pulls in a
> good number of gstreamer libraries. Of course only 100ms of warm time
> starting by itself on my machine, but prolly a good 300ms when the CPU
> is busy, and more when we have to seek/find all those libraries cold.
> 
> 	Is there a good reason for all that plugin goodness ? and/or could we
> defer all of it until much later ? or am I barking up an already barked
> tree ? :-)

Right now we always load all plugins, but at startup the property page
ones are not really required. However some are, and we don't currently
have a way to differentiate between the types of plugins without loading
them.