It's the small things: If you've been bothered with #calls and #chatty seemingly starting up slowly in #phosh (while most other apps startup fast): I've posted MRs to fix this in chatty and calls (which then also prompted a small fix in phosh). Here's a quick demo of calls before and after the change:
More info on GtkInspector in #gnome's developer documentation: https://developer.gnome.org/documentation/tools/inspector.html and here's how to use it in a nested phosh session: https://phosh.mobi/posts/phosh-dev-part-0/
@agx wow! How? Is it something with how Calls and Chatty are processing the long list of conversations or calls before they manage to show the list on screen?
@eliasr Both were running in the background already but the activation token to tell the compositor: hey, I'm here and should get focus (because phosh said so) was lost in the phosh -> spawns calls -> spawned calls instance notifies "calls daemon" that a window should be shown (and then quits) chain of events. By switching to DBus activation we remove the intermediate calls instance, the token gets passed and the compositor knows that calls is up (same for chatty).
@eliasr as chatty and calls run as daemon on session startup: so should it be slow for large call histories / room lists we can tweak that by preloading those. @devrtz already optimized that in calls a while back by only loading parts of the history. So basically startup was seemingly slow (although the app was already up) because calls/chatty didn't notify the rest of the system with a valid token
@agx cool lads!
@agx Never thought the startup was too slow in comparison. But this seems pretty neat!
@agx Thank you and again thank you for all the work you are putting into #LinuxMobile ecosystem. I always say you're One Man Army of developers... 😉
@okias Nah, I'm just standing on the shoulders of giants here (but thanks!). 😄
@agx I miss the python shell from GtkParasite...
Another small detail: I often need to scroll up in #chatty to reread something when composing a msg. Going back to the last msg of the conversation by taping the 🔵 would close the ⌨️ forcing me touch into the text area again (and causing visual distraction). We can fix this by having the 🔵 not take focus.
Posting this to demo it can be a one line change in a UI file to make #LinuxMobile work better. So please get involved! #Gtk 's GtkInspector is great to figure such things out.
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