ALT+F2 (Run command) takes ages to write a program name

[Luca Manganelli]

On 3/11/07, Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
> I'm not sure how long you mean "ages" to be,

every time I launch it, I must wait from 4 to 8 seconds to type a
letter... and it's not good.

> but the run dialog does do
> a lot during startup. Notably, it reads a bunch of .desktop files so you

where are they?

> can complete commands and present the list of applications with their
> icons. Maybe a reasonable fix would be to have it only search .desktop
> files when the "Show list of known applications" is ticked open. But
> that would require some coding...

Or a sort of caching... I think it should be improved.