Re: [Nautilus-list] fixing the fact that updating menus takes a lot of time

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

Havoc was discussing ways to fix this recently, actually, particularly
the memory usage (apparently caused by linearly scanning the entire XML
tree on every update)...so maybe somebody is working on it?

On 14 Jun 2001 13:48:08 -0400, Alex Larsson wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Darin Adler wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday, June 14, 2001, at 10:06  AM, Alex Larsson wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone talked to Michael about this problem? It would be nice if
> > > Bonobo was fixed for Gnome 2. (But my hopes aren't high about this
> > > unfortunately.)
> >
> > I discussed this with him at length when we switched Nautilus over to the
> > new Bonobo UI machinery. He implied that Nautilus was updating menus too
> > often and that a better-designed program would not need to do so much work.
> >
> > So I'm not sure he sees this as a problem in the Bonobo API.
> >
> > But perhaps his perspective has changed with time.
> 
> One can only hope....
> 
> A good library design (for a library such as Bonobo) should not force a
> design decision such as how often to update menus on the application
> writers.
> 
> / Alex
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Nautilus-list mailing list
> Nautilus-list lists eazel com
> http://lists.eazel.com/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list