xlet-settings.py performance issue
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- desktop, performance
Research direction
Start with xlet-settings.py and reproduce the issue by installing the papirus-dark icon theme, opening Menu → Configure → icon, selecting applications, and scrolling. Compare CPU use and responsiveness during scrolling; done means the icon dialog scrolls smoothly without the reported high CPU usage and freezing.
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Description
Cinnamon 4.8.6
no daily builds
Fedora 33
NVidia GTX1060
X86_64 with 12 CPUs @ 4.1Ghz / 32GB ####DRAM
Samsung SSD NVMe @ 3500 MBps
Issue
xlet-settings consumes high amount of CPU and heavily sputters and freezes while attempting to scroll through icons in the menu dialog -> icons. After some amount of time the CPU load decreases and the dialog becomes responsive which suggests some sort of caching or list is being created.
Steps to reproduce
Install papirus-dark icon theme.
Right click Menu -> Configure -> icon. The icon dialog pops up and select applications from the left pane. Attempt to scroll through the icons.
Expected behaviour
For the dialog to scroll seamlessly and not consume high amounts of CPU.
Also see here:
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/issues/9905
- Dominant language
- C
- Stars
- 169
- Forks
- 49
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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