On 02/03/2015 01:23 AM, Conrad Hill-Knight wrote: > Hi, > > This is something that's been bothering me for a while, and i think i > just have something misconfigured. When i left-click on the desktop to > bring up the main enlightenment menu, sometimes (often, actually) it > "stalls". [snip]
You Are Not Alone™ :-) This is a very common occurrence in all Linux interfaces I have used. I *believe* it's because the loading of entry names, icons, paths, etc is done at the time your cursor hovers on the menu (aka "in real time", "just-in-time", etc), and it take a lot of cycles to retrieve and present the data. As distinct from systems (Windows? Mac?) where the whole menu content is preloaded at login, and sits there in an array in memory taking up space all the time -- but providing a faster response. But this is just my deduction based on observation, so it's a hypotheses for which I have no proof. > So, what appears to happen, is that the menu display is temporarily > frozen. Sometimes with all the flickering and bouncing and popping-up and popping-down that goes on in modern decorated menus, the script gets out of whack and loses control of where it's supposed to be; or there is a bug or other problem like a memory leak. I suspect this doesn't happen on really fast modern machines. I have no idea what the devs use, but they are probably better equipped than my old Dell Latitude D810. I have a bunch of even older D610s that I need to resuscitate from the kerlutches of Windows by installing Lubuntu for some graduate students, and it would be nice to give them a good interface like e17...so I will test one of the machines this week and see if it copes. ///Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
