[maemo-developers] Feature request for Application Menu

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Florent de Dinechin wrote:
> While we're there, am I the only one to think the main menu is 
> inacceptably slow? This is especially true after some period of inaction 
> (does something get swapped?) or after boot, but it is never 
> instantaneous as it should.

I think actually most of the time in opening that menu first time
goes to decompressing all the application icon PNG images
(they are loaded automatically after a few secs after the device
has booted if user didn't have time to tap to the menu I think).
I think they are cached after that.


I have the feeling the gobject is
> reconstructed from scratch each time I click, with all the mallocs etc, 
> then laboriously freed before the application is launched. If it is the 
> case there is room for improvement here: the structure of this menu 
> changes only in well controled situations, maybe it could stay in memory.
> 
> This is true of the user interface of most apps, actually. The file 
> manager is a pain, too.
> 
> I reopened my psion 5 yesterday to transfer a few remaining files, and 
> it felt much more responsive. It shouldn't, it is so old!

Icons in N800 have 32 times more bits per pixel (32-bit vs. 1-bit data)
and due to 226 DPI display, they have also a lot more pixels.

(Yes, the display is 16-bit.  Icons are converted to 16-bit on blitting
as Gdk supports only 24 & 32-bit image data.)


> Is that worth filling a bug?

Are you using the latest N800 release?


	- Eero