I propose that we have a one-day hackfest at GUADEC this year, focused on desktop performance.
We should take a handful of common desktop operations that are not as snappy or responsive as they should be, profile them, and optimize them. We should also target known bloat in various applications and reduce it. There is some useful information about excessive memory usage in the wiki, of course: http://live.gnome.org/MemoryReduction One of the operations I would like to see optimized is login speed. It takes a pretty long time to login on most GNOME desktops, and I think it would be great if we could improve the login time (how long it takes before icons appear on your desktop and you can use the menu or panel launcher to launch an application). Usually people get too drunk for hackfests to happen, or there are too many talks, or everyone works on their own project and our efforts are dissipated. I think it would be nice to have the hacking room be used for hacking at least part of the time, and for us to have a common goal. If people like this idea, then we can create a wiki page and start listing tasks now, so that there's a menu of tasks to choose from when you get to Stuttgart. (If GUADEC were next week, I would propose that the hackfest be based on Matthew Thomas's excellent GNOME UI review (which you can and should read at http://mpt.net.nz/). But I don't think we should wait till GUADEC to fix the problems that Matthew lists, so we should choose another topic for the GUADEC hackfest. Then again, if GUADEC comes around and most of the issues Matthew lists are not yet fixed, we should fix them.) Nat _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
