On 3/20/08, Federico Mena Quintero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 15:57 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > [Infrastructure to keep track of regressions in login time] > > > Yeap, apparently such infrastructure is needed. > > > Yeah. We can probably start by adding some checkpoints to interesting > parts in the startup code of the desktop programs --- what we've been > doing in Nautilus and the Panel should definitely help. Then we have to > find an easy way to collect that data on demand, and then feed it to > tools like bootchart / iogrind / etc. > > The problem we've had so far is that someone does a good analysis of > login time, things get fixed, but then over time things get gradually > worse. It would be nice to be able to get a fresh profile at any > moment, just to see that things didn't get screwed up. > > Volunteers? I'd be delighted to mentor this :) > > > > Indeed, but it would have been nice to know this was important to > > users before. The fact that GVFS allows this is a strike of luck. > > > Ubuntu's new "brainstorm" page is pretty cool. Would you have time to > implement something similar for GNOME? I quite like the idea of a "digg > for feature ideas" that we could reuse in various places.
It would be useful, but perhaps it would be better to just get our own category over there. If we have our own brainstorm website, a lot of the ideas are going to be duplicates and there'll be two places to discuss and vote on everything. Natan Federico > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list >
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