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gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons package

  1. Disco (19.04)
  2. Bug #1815550
  3. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 1815550

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote : Re: gnome-shell high memory and CPU usage when using zsh

OK, that's a red flag. Those folders should not appear on your desktop.

On IRC you suggest that everything in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs is pointing to $HOME/. So whatever leaks or CPU inefficiencies the gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons has already will be amplified on your machine, by both:

 (a) The strange custom ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs where everything points to $HOME
 (b) The use of zsh which touches $HOME on every command.

I expect practically zero users to have (a), and larger but still small subset of users to have (b). So we can safely lower the priority. It's at least useful now we know how to stress test the extension for leaks and performance.