Opening Document > Settings feels a bit laggy to me

[Paul Rubin]

On 3/8/25 07:39, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> To reproduce:
>
> 1. Start a new document.
> 2. Document > Settings.
>
> To me, it feels like it takes a bit longer for the dialog to show than I remember.
>
> I did a quick check and indeed 2.3.0 and 2.3.x are faster. However,
> often when I debug these issues it turns out I have different compiler
> settings (e.g., optimization level or debug flags), or actually
> layout2layout is running in the background of master and that won't be
> the case on release. i.e., I have no idea if this difference is due to a
> code change, so I thought I would ask here before I attempt a git
> bisect.
>
> Does the above recipe feel slower to anyone else (especially those on
> older machines)?
>
> Scott
>
I have an HP 570 Pavilion (probably about seven years old) running Linux 
Mint, and I can confirm that there is a mildly disconcerting lag the 
first time I go to document settings. After the first time, there's no 
perceptible lag. I thought maybe some sort of caching was occurring, but 
that does not explain the following. If I start LyX, create a document, 
go to settings (lag), create a second document and go to settings in 
that document, there is no lag in the second document, even though it is 
my first time looking at settings for that document.

Paul