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hoschi

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From: Ulm (Germany)

Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 476

Slow overview search with GNOME 3.16

Hello!
I'm just need a confirmation:

The search inside the overview off the new GNOME 3.16 seems to be lagging. So I thought about what changed and suspected the new gnome-characters application, because it searchs by default through all availabe characters and their descriptions (UTF == A lot of characters). I turned of searching for "characters" in the gnome-settings but at first it doesn't changed anything, after a reboot everything is now snappy again.

Can anyone confirm this?
Please note, that gnome-characters is only installed if you execute "pacman -S gnome gnome-extra" not with the regular updates.

Thanks
Hoschi

pika

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Registered: 2014-04-11

Posts: 25

Re: Slow overview search with GNOME 3.16

Yes, I can confirm this behaviour! When I disable character search (and some other I dont even use) it is fast again! I use the search only to open applications kinda like dmenu.

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hoschi

Member

From: Ulm (Germany)

Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 476

Re: Slow overview search with GNOME 3.16

Seems to be shaky, sometimes it was slow even when the "Characters" are turned off. Maybe releated to some other stuff around Tracker and Zeitgeist.

I'm pretty sure it is a good idea to turn off stuff you don't need personally, because they support now a wide range of search providers.