Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 19:07:23 GMT From: Martin <nakal@nurfuerspam.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/99696: gtk-update-icon-cache is not being run often enough Message-ID: <200607011907.k61J7NDi048509@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200607011910.k61JAF6S016220@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 99696 >Category: ports >Synopsis: gtk-update-icon-cache is not being run often enough >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sat Jul 01 19:10:14 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Martin >Release: FreeBSD-STABLE >Organization: >Environment: multiple machines (running 6.x releases and -STABLE) >Description: When installing more and more ports for Gnome2, you can run into performance problems, while using drop-down menus/windows with lots of icons. Examples are: firefox bookmark toolbar, Gnome2 menu bar and other applications that show many icons at once. A click into firefox bookmarks can take over 10 seconds to make the drop-down menu appear. I traced it down and noticed that icons in the gnome directories are being scanned again and again. The cache, even it had a fresh timestamp, has not been used. >How-To-Repeat: I'm not really sure how to reproduce it. What I had here is a Gnome2 desktop with a manually installed theme/icons for my user (please note that the custom icons are in my $HOME/.icons directory and have nothing to do with the way how to fix the problem). I installed Xfce4 yesterday and the problem appeared today after starting the laptop. This is the third PC the problem appears on and I always fixed it with the fix suggested below. >Fix: It seems that gtk-update-icon-cache is not being run often enough after installing new themes. To fix the problems I found out that it is sufficient to run: gtk-update-icon-cache --force <directory-path> on all /usr/X11R6/share/icons/ directories (please note: you are required to use --force because of the problem with the cache timestamp that is up-to-date). I would like to know if: - this problem can be solved by running "gtk-update-icon-cache --force" after some specific port installations - this is a bug in GTK-support - this is my fault, because I'm doing something I'm not aware of >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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