[tomboy-list] Possible fix for BUG#375687

[Sandy Armstrong]

(Don't forget to CC tomboy-list)

You might find this wiki page useful, then:

http://mono-project.com/Responsive_Applications

It details how to add idle handlers and timeouts to gtk# applications.

Best,
Sandy

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Iivari Mokelainen<iivari at mokelainen.com> wrote:
> Well, even though i dont use tomboy, i would love to submit a patch for
> this.
>
> The problem is i haven't poked mono or gtk+ with a long sitck, and have no
> idea
> what to use for the timer. I could implement one with threads and sleep(),
> but that is not the way :)
>
> I will try and start by installing git and getting the source :)
>>
>> Hi Iivari,
>>
>> This sounds like a good approach.  Care to work up a patch?  ;-)
>>
>> Sandy
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Iivari Mokelainen<iivari at mokelainen.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hey!
>>>
>>> quote from bugzilla: "Tomboy is slow for typing text, especially with
>>> notes
>>> that have already lots of words in them." (#375687)
>>>
>>> Since 'a change' to the text is a single insertion (be it a character or
>>> a
>>> whole sentce by pasting), we could add a timer for acting on insertion.
>>>
>>> Old behaviour:
>>> user typed 's'
>>> all listeners for events are called
>>> user typed 'l'
>>> all listeners for events are called
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>> proposed behaviour :
>>> user typed 'f'
>>> a timer is set to call all the listeners in N ms
>>> user typed 'a'
>>> the timer is reset, eg the restarted to be called in N ms.
>>> no input for N ms.
>>> all listeners for events are called
>>> ...
>>>
>>> with that when typing fast the timer will be reset each time, and only
>>> when
>>> user stops inserting text listeners are called.
>>>
>>> could possible ease the situation with #507795, since if the leak is one
>>> of
>>> the listeners, it wont be called that many times.
>>>
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