Opening Document > Settings feels a bit laggy to me

[Paul Rubin]

On 3/8/25 12:49, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> 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
>
Sorry, meant to include that and forgot. It was 2.4.3.

Paul