Re: Iceweasel (from backports) keeps busy cursor at startup
On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 22:08 +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On 2010-03-21, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:13:22 +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> >
> >> On 2010-03-21, Camaleón wrote:
> >
> > (...)
> >
> >>> Is someone seeing that behavior or it's just me?
> >>>
> >>> If yes, I could report it to the backport's guys. If not, something
> >>> went wrong at my side and any hints would be great :-)
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I see the same behaviour with iceweasel from backports. When you launch
> >> iceweasel from the menu or a panel icon then you get start-up
> >> notification as specified in the last line of the file
> >> /usr/share/applications/iceweasel.desktop. When you launch from a
> >> terminal, that is not the case.
> >>
> >> Still, I don't know the underlying reason why iceweasel displays the
> >> busy cursor for so long. Presumably some internal initialisation is
> >> taking longer than expected. But I'm convinced that that is still the
> >> case when launching from a terminal: it's just that we are not being
> >> made aware of the fact.
> >
> > Thanks for your feedback. I think I've discovered a very "dumb" trick.
> >
> > Just creating a new launcher seems to solve the problem. You can use the
> > same options (command: iceweasel %u, description: Web browsing... etc.)
> >
> > Could you please check if it also works for you?
> >
>
> Yes, creating a new, minimal, .desktop file solves the problem. Here is
> the one I used:
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Version=1.0
> Type=Application
> Terminal=false
> Name[en_GB]=iceweasl
> Exec=/usr/bin/iceweasel
> Icon[en_GB]=iceweasel
> Name=iceweasl
> Icon=iceweasel
>
> The browser window popped up immmediately, without the busy cursor.
>
> I would be interested to learn which part of the official .desktop file
> is responsible for the behaviour you first observed.
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We are seeing the same behavior and would very much like to solve this
problem. I tracked down the iceweasel.desktop file
to /usr/share/applications. I first commented out the non-language
related items that did not appear in your .desktop file above. That did
not fix it.
I then removed all the language related entries except the default in
case it was a bad language entry. That did not fix it.
I then replaced the file with the one you give above. That did not fix
it.
Then I wondered if it was a location issue. So I placed your file in
~/Desktop so it showed up as a desktop icon rather than a menu icon.
Alas that did not fix it either. At a loss for what to try next - John
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