On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:59:39 +0100 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > sure. but even here there are stages - the bit where x comes up and > > displays a fixed ppm to keep u amused - and then you watch that sit there > > for a while until the windowmanager and god knows what else get their act > > together. by the look of things this could also be improved. who need the > > xdefaults stuff anymore - for example? settings-dameon is a heavy beastie > > too. it links a lot of shared libs i seriously doubt it needs to do its > > core job. it's sucked in libpng, zlib, freetype, pango. libxfixes, xcurso, > > randr.... when all it does is read data form gconf (which is probably what > > sucks all these in) can set x properties. removing gconf all it needs is > > libX11 and libc really. so as part of this glib fun we get gconv > > internationalization init stuff (settings-daemon has no need to worry about > > translations), a bunch of dbus-launch stuff (not sure where that came from) > > that should really have been done as the parent process to the xsession, > > not as children to settings-daemon, then running xrdb AGAIN in addition to > > the xrdb run by the startup scripts... all of this shenanigans takes about > > 15 seconds of wall-clock time. > > Two interesting approaches to "fix" this would be: > > a) Ditch X and write a nice and fast, framebuffer-based SmartPhone application > controller. [yes, accelleration may be a problem here] nah - settings-daemon is something brewed up for gtk land stuff. it's heavy in terms of libraries, linking and requirements. i read the code for it. it could be stripped down even more than OH have done - i suspect it could become a lot leaner. > Or > > b) Come up with a framebuffer-based interface, launch X in the > backround on another VT, then switch seamlessly to it. isn't the splashscreen (psplash for example) for that? :) i'm talking right now "X is up - but the X client apps are busy starting up". not sure ditching x is the right thing to a "you are just starting/using x inefficiently" problem :) -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
