Bounce opens and reads too many icons

[RafaelOrtiz]

from  http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8658

please read important info there and then close it there when finished
in the 2 places...maybe doing the follow up in here.

[gregdek]

From the parent bug:

"strace shows that Bounce opens and reads over 100 icons that it clearly doesn't need, from places like /usr/share/icons/sugar/scalable/device/battery-030.icon . (unexplored avenue: other activities may do this as well.) "

This could be an ugly performance issue, and given that we have intractable performance issues like Python Slowness, this could be a big win. Assigning to 0.84 to see if we can have a look, but I'm guessing we'll have to push it to 0.86. Maybe some intrepid soul can do the analysis here.

[wadeb]

I'm pretty sure this was happening to *all* activities, not just Bounce. However, I tried the strace myself on 8.2.0 and was unable see the icon loads.

[tomeu]

Replying to wadeb:

I'm pretty sure this was happening to *all* activities, not just Bounce. However, I tried the strace myself on 8.2.0 and was unable see the icon loads.

Actually, I saw it happening once but then couldn't reproduce.

I guess this happens because gtk cannot find the icon cache, so recreates it. This may have to do with rainbow. Maybe someone can check?

[erikos]

If it is rainbow specific - one should be able to easily find out by turning off rainbow and compare.

[erikos]

Can someone test this again on the XO?

[RafaelOrtiz]

Tested again on the xo, bounce v7, strace not reproducible closing.