Bug 162171

Summary:	Show dashboard (Ctrl-F12) takes 15-20sec to appear on first time
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Stefan Neufeind <kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
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Description Stefan Neufeind 2008-05-16 16:48:48 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.3)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs
OS:                Linux

After pressing Ctrl-F12 the dashboard does not show up as expected for 15-20 seconds. During that time however the mouse-cursor etc. stays responsive.

Steps to reproduce:
- start KDE4.0.3
- launch some apps
- press Ctrl-F12

It does work "quite quick" however after having returned from "show dashboard" one time and doing a second "show dashboard". So I suspect it needs some time for "initialisation"? But the dashboard is already loaded at that time, isn't it?

Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-05-16 23:44:41 UTC

> 15-20 seconds.

you have an exceptionally slow system. what video card, video driver and x.org combination are you using?

> I suspect it needs some time for "initialisation"?

yes.

> the dashboard is already loaded at that time, isn't it?

no.

Comment 2 Stefan Neufeind 2008-05-17 23:26:32 UTC

Nvidia Quadro NVS 135M, xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173.08-1.lvn9.x86_64, xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.901-29.20080415.fc9.x86_64, xorg-x11-server-utils-7.3-3.fc9.x86_64

Using that nvidia-driver with -ignoreABI

Comment 3 Bassio 2008-06-15 23:40:17 UTC

I confirm that it is slow on first time use .. hey but 15 seconds is very slow .. 

It takes like 4-5 seconds on my PC. And this happens only when calling CTRL+F12 "for the first time"

using latest NVIDIA driver, and 512MB VGA NVIDIA Geforce 8600

KDE 4.0.5

Hey Aaron if this is related to this bug
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155678
and something is wrong in x.org .. then you need to close some bugs ;)
regards

Comment 4 Mariusz Józala 2008-06-23 14:59:05 UTC

I confirm this bug on my OpenSuse 11.0 with KDE 4 with the newest drivers from NVIDIA for GF6600.
In my case is about 3-5 seconds and it's really annoying.

Comment 5 Bernhard Friedreich 2008-06-26 16:06:54 UTC

Yeah.. it takes some time to load on my system too (3-5 seconds) :-(
My System: Intel Pentium D805(@3,9GHz), 2GB DDR2 667Mhz, NVIDIA 8800GTS 640MB (nvidia 173.14.09), openSUSE 11.0 x86

happens in trunk compiled from source (on the above system) and also on precompiled packages from opensuse (it has been so slow since dashboard has been introduced).

imho the dashboard should be preloaded in the background! (or at least it's startuptime should be improved a lot)

Comment 6 Michal Borek 2008-06-26 16:11:44 UTC

Bemhard, but there is no problem with that when you use other graphics card (even not very good such as laptop Intel card), so the problems isn't in preloading dashboard.

Comment 7 Stefan Neufeind 2008-06-26 16:16:08 UTC

When I minimize all running programs I see the very same dashboard, don't I? And that one is simply there (quick). I expected the hotkey to just "bring the workspace to front".

Comment 8 Lubos Lunak 2008-06-27 11:10:07 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 155678 ***