Alacarte (was Re: Edgy feedback)

[janne.jokitalo at dnainternet.net]

Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Thanks for this response. I'm reposting to the list.

Thanks! I'm such a loser... ;)

> If this is right, and the speed of that search can't be 
> improved, I wonder if there could be some caching done... 

I'm sure there are ways, and also some caching in order, 
but I suspect the principal is that you _might_ have 
something new, which you want to add. And if it's new, it 
won't be in the cache. But again, I don't know what I'm 
talking about, and frankly I found it hard to gain 
additional info on how the thing works, I guess I need to 
start looking at the code. :) Or else I'm just having a 
really bad day, and can't even see where I'm looking.

> gnome-app-install also does some searching for files, and
> opens really slowly in Dapper. I understand that there will
> be some caching implemented in order to improve this for
> future releases.

As long as there are good and working methods of 
refreshing the cache when the user doesn't even notice, I 
would think using a cache is a great idea.


-- 
Jaska