Slingshot uses too much memory

[xapantu]

Because of every icon, slingshot takes a lot of memory, up to 80MB with a small number of applications installed. That's a problem, because most of the icons will not be shown to the user every time, and it takes a lot of time to load.

The quantity itself is not a problem (nowadays, every one has at least 1GB I suppose), but it slows down the loading time of the desktop (or of the first time slingshot is opened) for nothing.

[Djax (parnold-x)]

So too much memory or too slow :) We could load the icons async or in threads.

[Djax (parnold-x)]

Btw. my slingshot is ~36mb with 77 applications.

[xapantu (xapantu)]

Yes, loading them asynchronously would be a good step forward.

My slingshot may load too many things that would be blacklisted on a
plain Freya, but that is still an issue if the user installs a few
applications.

On 19/08/2015 21:30, Djax wrote:
> Btw. my slingshot is ~36mb with 77 applications.
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