Drag and Drop lags too much

[Alex Solanos]

ubuntu 11.10 32 bit

Description of the problem:
I have opened firefox and I am in a website where there's an image somewhere. I Drag the Image and the whole window stacks for 2 seconds, after this the launcher shows himself and has highlighted the program(s) with which I can open the dragged image (e.g. Gimp, Shutter, Firefox etc) .

I assume that the launcher searches the .desktop files each time so as to detect the corresponding MimeTypes, so that's why it is so slow.
Maybe, a good solution is to load the MimeTypes of each .desktop file in memory and access the memory each time there's a drag'en'drop event and not the .desktop files...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #772445., so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

> I assume that the launcher searches the .desktop files each time so as to detect the corresponding MimeTypes, so that's why it is so slow.

It's not correct... launcher searches the .desktop file just after the login and as soon as a new icon is added using and idle function.

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

> It's not correct... launcher searches the .desktop file just after the login and as soon as a new icon is added using and idle function.

Launcher searches the .desktop files just after the login and as soon as a new icon has been added. Launcher uses an idle function to get the MimeTypes...