Bug#675241: Rhythmbox is reacting very slowly when accessibility support is enabled

Alexander Kurtz kurtz.alex at googlemail.com
Wed May 30 17:34:16 UTC 2012


Package: rhythmbox
Version: 2.96-5
Severity: important

Hi,

I've recently started Orca by accident. Upon startup, Orca automatically
sets "org.gnome.desktop.interface.toolkit-accessibility" to "true" [0].
After a lot of trial-and-error I discovered that this setting was the
reason why Rhythmbox was suddenly reacting *very* slowly. Please take a
look a these numbers:

                          | value == false | value == true
-------------------------------------------+--------------
Rhythmbox startup         |     < 1 second |  ~ 10 seconds
Searching for an album    |     < 1 second |   ~ 3 seconds
Clearing the search field |     < 1 second |   ~ 5 seconds

These times were measured with a database containing ~ 4000 songs. With
a bigger database the effect is much more dramatic - Rhythmbox is
basically unusable there (startup alone takes several minutes).

I don't think the accidental launch of one application should make
another application unusable without even telling the user what the
problem is.

Best regards

Alexander Kurtz

[0] I guess doing this directly after startup without first asking the 
    user is not perfect, but I can understand the rationale behind this 
    decision.
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