Re: first login time speedup

[Johannes Rohr <jorohr@gmail.com>]

Jonathan Brandmeyer <jbrandmeyer@earthlink.net> writes:

> There is something that Debian can do to significantly improve initial
> login times with GNOME.  Please see the comments here regarding gconfd
> and gconf-merge-tree: 
> http://www.gnome.org/~lcolitti/gnome-startup/analysis/
>
> Debian bug #335823 is tracking this feature request.  I'm giving you
> folks a heads-up since it seems like you're the most likely ones to be
> capable and interested in implementing it.

As I understand, the actual change would be trivial: Simply run
gconf-merge-tree from postinst after a gconf schema has been
registered. If this saves up to 7 seconds startup time, it should be
worthwhile. I've tried it and it seems to have a notable effect.

Thanks,

Johannes

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