Gnome 2.14 is as slow as molasses ...

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: "Kiffin Gish" <kiffin.gish at planet.nl>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 13:43:45 +0200
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> 
> Ever since I upgraded from Gnome 2.12 to 2.14 on top of FreeBSD 6.1, > I've
> been disappointed with the VERY slow performance of the Gnome Desktop.
> 
> Not only is it very sluggish in general, but most applications take > anywhere
> from 30-60 secs to start.
> 
> I thought that Gnome 2.14 was supposed to have all these exceptional
> performance tweaks, but for some reason my system is doing the exact
> opposite.
> 
> Can anyone help me?

This sounds like what I had after the upgrade.

I re-installed all ports to fix it, but that is rather painful.

If you look in the archives of this list, there is a posting with a
shell script to rebuild the icon cache and that is reported to fix the
problem. 
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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