Opening Document > Settings feels a bit laggy to me

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 11:31:47AM -0500, Paul Rubin wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Thanks for checking, Paul. Which LyX version did you check on?

Scott
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