Re: run dialog

[andreas hyden telia com]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> >
> > I've tried gnome's run dialog, but found it lacking
> > First it start's unacceptably slowly. on my PII366 it's >1 second. Even on
> > slow computers Windows' run pops up imedately (also, I think the way the
> > windows keybord buffer works, you can start typing as soon as the program is
> > opened, but before it has finished opening and the text ends up being
> > entered anyway)
> >
>
> This is a hard problem, basically the little dialog is a full-blown Gnome
> application with all the same startup time. We are trying hard to kill the
> startup time for Gnome 2.0, though we really need better profiling
> information. The current hypothesis is that the time is spent finding
> shared libs.
>

Gnome's run dialog could be a part of the gnome-panel
instead of being it's own applicatione. Then the startup
time shouldn't be so long...

Andy