On 6 Jul 2010, at 10:16, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 05:26, Gary Martin <garycmar...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On 6 Jul 2010, at 03:33, Bernie Innocenti wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 17:34 +0100, Gary Martin wrote: >>> >>>> Just showing the name under the pulsing icon might be a useful extra, >>>> but ideally the launch time should be as short as possible so might >>>> look odd briefly flashing up the text (the pulse animation is meant to >>>> be a transition, just unfortunate that most startups are still more >>>> than a second or three). >>> >>> Who would be interested in working on startup optimization? >> >> Well happy to help test, but seems above my technical water line. >> >> Wade experimented (and there are patches in trac I think) with a pulse >> animation effect that was quicker to transition but then paused slightly at >> max/min. Seem to remember it took another ~couple of seconds off startup, >> but never made it through to a release (was part of his work on the activity >> startup failure message that did thankfully land). >> >>> Besides Tomeu's ongoing work on PyGI, I think we could gain a lot by >>> shaving off huge modules such as numpy and sharing pre-rendered svg >>> icons in some memory-mappable cache file. >> >> I didn't think any of Glucose used numpy? I thought it was there for >> Fructose (Activities) only if they needed. FWIW I have a couple of Activity >> projects that would use numpy but I'm not there yet. >> >> Pre-rendering is tricky as both stroke/fill colour, and image size are >> variable. >> >> I was hopeful after seeing Mart Raudsepp's email a week ago to the dev list >> about Cairo's slow rendering on XO hardware (and possible future >> improvements), but Wade pointed out the pulsing animation is currently a >> Hipocanvas thing. > > It was the case some time ago that Hippo would decide to request a > full screen redraw at every pulse, but it was fixed to be smarter > about what needs being redrawn. Or are we talking about another bug in > Hippo?
Activity start-up times are significantly better than they used to be, so no specific bug that I'm aware of, was just hopeful of any opportunities to further improve performance Regards, --Gary > Regards, > > Tomeu > >> Regards, >> --Gary >> >>> -- >>> // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ >>> \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel