gnome do needs time to react properly

[laborg]

When ubuntu(karmic) starts it automatically loads gnome-do. If gnome-do isn't loaded fully typing in words/characters doesn't trigger the same actions as otherwise. E.g. typing in "f" would normally suggest Firefox, but in this case it doesn't do.
I think there may be some kind of cache or user-setting loading in the background, which, only when finished, lets gnome-do act the way it should.
So my question to you: Wouldn't it be nice if gnome-do only appears when it's fully loaded and therefore operational?

[Mingming Ren (portis25)]

I can confirm this. In addition, gnome-do can sometimes cause 100% CPU usage. I have to kill it and restart it.

[David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount)]

laborg, your proposal is that when you first log in and Do is still loading, pressing the keyboard shortcut to summon Do should do... nothing? Do you really think that is better behavior?

Mingming,the 100% CPU issue is a different bug, please don't deal with it here. (It's probably a buggy Firefox plugin, try disabling that.)

[portis (portis24)]

Thanks, but I never enable the firefox plugin.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:36 PM, David Siegel <email address hidden>wrote:

> laborg, your proposal is that when you first log in and Do is still
> loading, pressing the keyboard shortcut to summon Do should do...
> nothing? Do you really think that is better behavior?
>
> Mingming,the 100% CPU issue is a different bug, please don't deal with
> it here. (It's probably a buggy Firefox plugin, try disabling that.)
>
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> gnome do needs time to react properly
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/419332
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[laborg (gerhardtt)]

@David: No! I don't think you got me right. When i log in into my desktop I don't summon gnome-do by pressing a shortcut, it's just there from the beginning on. I don't have the option "Hide window on first launch (quiet mode)" checked in the preferences if that matters. And if gnome-do is open (i'm just talking about the first usage) and i'm to eager to start an application it's not going to recognize my wish (e.g. "f" for firefox). In order to work normally i've to press "Escape" and summon gnome-do with the normal short cut a second time.

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

David just for clarity, the firefox plugin is not the 100% cpu bug. The 100%
cpu bug is causes by the ApplicationItemSource but we're still not sure
exactly what in it yet.

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-- Alex Launi