Panel UI freeze during icons scan

Submitted by mirh

Assigned to Nick Schermer

Link to original bug (#13418)

Description

I guess like desktop people don't even notice this, but on my 1.6GHz laptop I have to wait 50 seconds of wrapper-1.0 50% cpu load before I can even just open "start menu".

Could the search be made async/multi-thread?

Version: 0.12

Simon Steinbeiß @ochosi said:

That sounds odd, could you share your panel configuration just to check which plugins you're using? I cannot confirm that at all.

Also, feel free to test the panel from master, it has already been ported to Gtk+3.

mirh uploaded an attachment:

Just tried gtk3 git, same.

No matter how many times I press Win button (aka super), menu will only open once "icons selection" menu has popped-up.

Attachment 7115, "Xfce4-panel elements":

Simon Steinbeiß @ochosi said:

Oh, so you're experiencing this problem with whiskermenu, not the panel's application menu. I'm moving the bug over...

Graeme Gott @gottcode said:

I have a 1.5GHz laptop, and I can't recreate this. What version of Whisker Menu are you using? And would you be willing to test a patch?

mirh said:

1.7.3, sure at any time.

Graeme Gott @gottcode submitted a patch:

Excellent, thanks! The first thing I can think to test is not loading the launcher icons until the menu is shown.

Patch 7375, "Defer loading launcher icons":
defer.patch

mirh said:

Still goes kaput that good minute as soon as I press the big "icon:" button.

Graeme Gott @gottcode said:

(In reply to mirh from comment 7)

Still goes kaput that good minute as soon as I press the big "icon:" button.

I thought you meant a delay before you could access your panel after login. My mistake! If you are talking about using the icon selector in the preferences dialog, that delay would be caused by exo (specifically, the ExoIconChooserDialog). Does this delay happen for you with the regular applications menu and its icon chooser? Or modifying a launcher and choosing an icon there?

mirh said:

(In reply to Graeme Gott from comment 8)

Or modifying a launcher and choosing an icon there?

Uhg, it does.

Are you still affected by this bug? If yes, does it make difference when you use a different icon theme?

I will close this report.

We can reopen it if the bug reporter or anyone else is able to provide further information.

closed

mentioned in issue panel-plugins/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin#90 (closed)