Mark wrote:
What would be best with the start menu:
- During boot the start menu and all it's icons (actually all the
default icons) should be cached so that the start menu pops up right
away when you click on it and all the icons are in place and vissible.
Seems like it would be better if gnome itself did this precaching when
it starts - not the boot process. (maybe that's what you meant). I
don't know if gnome does its own caching of the icons after the first
read, or if it reads the files each time you click and hopes for OS
caching? I agree though, waiting for the first click to go drag the
icons off the disk is painful.
Now about the caching itself.
Wouldn't it be best to precache all the applications that are gonna be
started anyway? like:
- gome-desktop
- gnoma-panel
- the default gnome applets
....
that's called "readahead" right? We have the infrastructure, but I
think it needs some love. It's hard to keep the file list up to date,
and when it's wrong, it hurts more than it helps...
-Eric