Every move/resize event by dconf-editor causes write to disk

[Victor Zamanian]

I opened dconf-editor and did some resizing and moving of the window to fit my screen a little better and so I could see fields/values a little better. I noticed (could hear) my hard drive doing a whole bunch of writes at the same time I was moving and resizing the window, so I got confused.

It appears that ca.desrt.dconf-editor has some data fields ("height" and "width") that are updated very unnecessarily (at least I can't see a reason for it) when I resize the window. It does a whole lot more writes if I do the resizing very slowly too, and less writes if I resize fast. I guess since there are fewer events to the window manager.

I haven't been able to find the values that deal with the position of the window, but I'm pretty darn sure that moving the window causes the same type of updating of data values. It behaves just like the height and width values as far as my drive is concerned. The drive responds in the exact same way.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: dconf-tools 0.10.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.25-generic 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jan 15 22:40:51 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
SourcePackage: d-conf
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)