-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: > 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]
Something tells me Carsten will not like to ditch X ;-) If I understood his point, he is saying that everywhere he looks he sees bloat, and that he can imagine to put some of these apps on a serious diet and / or move them out of X init to bite into that 15s he sees going that way. And indeed a settings-*daemon* doesn't need pango, etc. Sounds good! - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHlMXbOjLpvpq7dMoRAgV+AJ98ERA8VofHzbnY7uSjzo0t0Y1drgCfQtJm gaHkJ1XpN/q13h69rkSMpG4= =6tI1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
