Mitcho I must ask why couldn't it have been named 0.5.1beta?
On Jul 15, 7:17 pm, mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine) <[email protected]>
wrote:
> We've pushed a new 0.5.1 beta which should improve general parser
> performance as well as help with the flickering issue. You can get
> this beta here:
>
> http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/xpi/ubiquity-latest-beta.xpi
>
> (Note: for techinical reasons it's called 0.5pre7.)
>
> I would love to know if this helps improves the behavior.
>
> mitcho, Labs
>
> On Jul 14, 4:47 pm, "mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > We're actively working on these issues for 0.5.1. If you get Ubiquity
> > from the hg repository [1] you can already try out some changes which
> > may help both the performance and flickering you mention.
>
> > [1]https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity_0.1_Development_Tutorial
> > #Getting_Set_Up
>
> > mitcho, Labs
>
> > > It's still flashing on every keystroke and occasionally locking up for
> > > a few seconds even with the new parser turned off. It did that in the
> > > latest alpha as well, but not to the extent it does it now.
>
> > > On Jul 14, 9:28 am, xero <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> I had to turn off Parser 2 in 0.5 as well. Typing causes the entire
> > >> Ubiquity dialog to flash on almost every letter. Sometimes it gets
> > >> locked up and doesn't recognize that I typed anything, but of course
> > >> only in the middle of what I was typing. The parser occasionally just
> > >> decides that the command no longer matches when typing its arguments.
> > >> I'm hoping the bugs and performance issues get worked out because I
> > >> love Ubiquity, but right now it's not even usable.
>
> > >> On Jul 12, 7:44 pm, Bhagwad <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >>> I've turned off the "Use Parser 2 (the next generation parser)"
> > >>> setting in the Ubiquity preferences page and now the speed is back
> > >>> to
> > >>> normal.
>
> > >>> On Jul 11, 10:16 am, Bhagwad <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >>>> Any way I can help out? Need me to do some tests? Just ask
>
> > >>>> Bhagwad
>
> > >>>> On Jul 11, 9:12 am, "mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)"
> > >>>> <[email protected]>
> > >>>> wrote:
>
> > >>>>> Some of the new features in Parser 2, particularly the new smart
> > >>>>> argument-first suggestions, necessitates that the code be more
> > >>>>> complex
> > >>>>> than in previous Ubiquity releases. There are still some areas I
> > >>>>> believe we can continue optimizing the code, however, so this work
> > >>>>> will be ongoing.
>
> > >>>>> In particular, Bhagwad, I currently believe we do have a bug where
> > >>>>> things take a long time on initial parses (like your first letter
> > >>>>> ones), which I'd like to look into.
>
> > >>>>> Thanks for the feedback!
>
> > >>>>> mitcho
>
> > >>>>>> 2009/7/11 Bhagwad <[email protected]>:
>
> > >>>>>>> Since updating Ubiquity to 0.5, the time taken for the process
> > >>>>>>> to
> > >>>>>>> recognize the first few letters, highlight the command and
> > >>>>>>> deliver a
> > >>>>>>> local result (such as the "calculate" command) has slowed down
> > >>>>>>> tremendously.
>
> > >>>>>>> Whereas initially it was milliseconds, it's now at least 2
> > >>>>>>> seconds
> > >>>>>>> long. Anyone else facing this problem? I'm using Ubuntu with
> > >>>>>>> Firefox/
> > >>>>>>> Shiretoko 3.5 . Let me boot into Windows and see if the same
> > >>>>>>> problem
> > >>>>>>> occurs.
>
> > >>>>>> Yes, I noticed, too, that 0.5 is slower when it's processing my
> > >>>>>> input.
> > >>>>>> I use Shiretoko 3.5 on Ubuntu 9.04 and have better timing, much
> > >>>>>> less
> > >>>>>> than 2 seconds, but it's still noticeable, since I have and older
> > >>>>>> version at work for comparison.
>
> > >>>>>> --
> > >>>>>> Timur Izhbulatov —www.timka.org
>
> > >>>>> --
> > >>>>> mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)
> > >>>>> [email protected]http://mitcho.com/
> > >>>>> linguist, coder, teacher
>
> > --
> > mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine)
> > [email protected]http://mitcho.com/
> > linguist, coder, teacher
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