#8000 NORM 8.2.0 (: Pulsing icon on activity launch significantly slows activity start-up

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#8000: Pulsing icon on activity launch significantly slows activity start-up
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   Reporter:  riccardo     |       Owner:  marco               
       Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                 
   Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
  Component:  sugar        |     Version:  not specified       
 Resolution:               |    Keywords:  performance, UI, r? 
Next_action:  review       |    Verified:  0                   
  Blockedby:               |    Blocking:                      
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Comment(by tomeu):

 Replying to [comment:9 riccardo]:
 > In a first draft I used to:
 > {{{
 >        surface = self._buffer.get_surface()
 >        if surface:
 >        # ... get surface size ...
 > }}}
 >
 > but deleted the snippet because startup became even slower. Is it needed
 in any cases ?

 Sorry, don't understand where that code would be placed and how it could
 make things slower, can you explain?

 > Startup is 1s (worst case) faster with the patched icon.py, both X and
 shell's cpu usages decreased quite a bit.

 Sounds excellent to me. Any downsides you see?

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8000#comment:11>
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