ALT+F2 (Run command) takes ages to write a program name

[Michael R. Head]

On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 12:02 +0100, Luca Manganelli wrote:
> hi,
> 
> if I use ALT+F2 (Run Command), everytime it takes ages to write a
> command (the window is stucked and the Hard Drive is working heavily).
> But I don't know why it is doing this...

I'm not sure how long you mean "ages" to be, but the run dialog does do
a lot during startup. Notably, it reads a bunch of .desktop files so you
can complete commands and present the list of applications with their
icons. Maybe a reasonable fix would be to have it only search .desktop
files when the "Show list of known applications" is ticked open. But
that would require some coding...

-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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