Gnome Menu List Icons Slow

Pauli · 11-16-2007, 08:54 PM

I'm running on a Dell inspiron 1420, and no matter what distribution I use when I first boot into gnome and click on the menu list the icons aren't there then they flash in. I know its a small issue, but it really annoys me. Is it only me that has this issue? I've searched a bit and I couldn't find anyone else talking about it.

jay73 · 11-17-2007, 02:57 PM

I have seen that on occasion too. Curiously enough, it happens most often when the system is installed on xfs.

Pauli · 11-17-2007, 09:13 PM

I've only installed with Ext3, so I think its not just limited to that.

All the icons work fine after they've loaded once, so it seems gnome doesn't load its icons into memory before they're accessed once? And is slow at accessing icons?

Its really something that should be fixed. I was showing my father linux the other day and even he noticed that, and this is on a core 2 duo dell inspiron 1420 with 2 gigs of ram.

jay73 · 11-17-2007, 10:05 PM

I've noticed that the issue tends to solve itself if you reduce the font (I'm at Tahoma 8 right now and I don't see any lagging anymore - although some of my menus are so long that they don't fit on the screen...).

Pauli · 11-18-2007, 12:40 PM

Tried it and it doesn't work on my system.

I'm going to take a look at gnome and see if I can make a script load the images on login/boot.