Re: GNOME Weirdness

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

This seems to have something to do with the 2.4 kernel and oaf.  It's a
mess I think.  I really, really like GNOME but lately things are just
slow.  It almost seems GNOME is living up to it's old self from a year
or so ago when people complained about it being slow.  Bloat comes to
mind but I guess it's the way of the future:-)  With a 900MHz athalon,
256Megs of memory and ATA100 drives it should just fly.  Maybe I'm
expecting to much. 

Maybe oaf and corba need to be coded in assembly:-) 

What we need is a really good filemanager.  Nautilus is a great file
viewer but as a file manager it's far far to slow.  It also would be no
good for a newbie as it still isn't that well behaved.  I've had to kill
off nautilus/mozilla processes.  There needs to be some kind of
copy/paste or file shelf function to temporarily hold files one is
moving or coping.  Trying to have two windows open on a small screen and
drag between them is a joke.  Sorry Eazel but it's just not good enough
as a file manager - yet.

At any rate what you can do to help is kill oaf off with oaf-slay every
time you log out.  That seems to help.

Any response from GNOME developers on this would be welcome.


On 14 Mar 2001 21:54:45 -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> All apps built for GNOME (Balsa, panel, gnome-terminal, gtcd, etc.) take a
> very long time to load after I logged in just a while agao (the login took
> a while too, what with the panel and capplets loading and stuff). 
> Non-GNOME apps, like Mozilla and XMMS are just as snappy as ever, though.
> 
> I think the problem is in my upgrades to gconf, oaf, and/or bonobo, which I
> did to get Nautilus 1.0 (which still doesn't work worth a crap, I've only
> ever had it running well once, and that was a snapshot just after the PR3
> release - so much for the new default GNOME file manager) and RedCarpet
> 0.9.2 running.
> 
> This is all on a Mandrake 7.2 distro, with kernel 2.4.2 (from
> MandrakeCooker RPMs).
> 
> I really don't want to downgrade, because that will take a bit of work -
> I'd rather to move forward and fix whatever was broken to get this working.
> 
> Anyone have any info on this, or am I going to have to start hunting old
> RPMs?
> 
> Thanks in advance, everyone!
> -- 
> Sean Middleditch
>   of
> AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.
> 
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