Improve speed of "start menu" in Linux Mint 10 - Ubuntu 10.10 derivative
- by Gabriel L. Oliveira
I have a global menu (including application, administration and system tabs) that is taking too much time (for me) to load (about 2.5 seconds).
Of course, this time is taken only during first start. After it have loaded, next times are better ( less than 0.2 miliseconds)
The menu was taking more time before (about 5 seconds), and I found that was because of the 'Other' part of the menu, that included many applications installed with Wine, so I removed all of them (I didn't need them at all).
I have a "normal" knowledge of programming, and I think that the process of starting the menu for the first time has some kind of "cache function", that tries to find which apps are present that need to be placed under menu to be shown to user. But didn't found this function so that I could analyze in details what he is doing (if searching for files under "~/.local/share/applications" or anything else).
Also, I found that hitting "Alt-F2" also fires this "cache function", because after waiting it to load, the process of opening the menu took less than 0.2 miliseconds.
So, could anyone help me in order to reduce this time? I found on internet that some user could reduce the time by resizing the icons of applications. But found here that most of my icons are already at 25x25 size.
Any other idead? Maybe a multiprocess to load it, or include it under startup... don't know.
Ps: Sorry if this is an awkward question, but I just do not like waiting for things to happen, and think that this process should be smoother than it's now.
Also, thanks in advance!
