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Bug 611924 - 5 seconds lag before opening the first chat window
5 seconds lag before opening the first chat window
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Chat themes
2.29.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-03-05 17:42 UTC by Nicolò Chieffo
Modified: 2012-08-26 11:13 UTC
See Also:
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Description Nicolò Chieffo 2010-03-05 17:42:15 UTC 
I'm using an adium theme, and I noticed that when I open the first chat window, it takes 5 seconds to (I think) initialize the theme.

The strange thing is that the other windows (even after restarting empathy) will open immediately.
Comment 1 Nicolò Chieffo 2010-03-09 08:56:06 UTC 
Talking with developer on IRC showed that this is a known behavior.
They confirmed that the problem is caused by adium initialization, which can be moved to empathy startup.
Comment 2 Brian Curtis 2010-03-09 14:36:40 UTC 
I have channels set as my favorites.  I have the adium theme chosen.  But my channels and chats pop up almost instantly.  I've been able to reproduce this bug in the past, but can't anymore.

Maybe my use case is slightly different?
Comment 3 Nicolò Chieffo 2010-03-10 08:41:02 UTC 
I can still reproduce it in ubuntu with empathy 2.29.91.2
Comment 4 Xavier Claessens 2010-03-10 09:17:38 UTC 
I'm wondering if first open of chat is much faster when you already started epiphany using webkit.
Comment 5 Nicolò Chieffo 2010-03-10 10:31:10 UTC 
I've tested this now. I think it is faster.
Comment 6 Guillaume Desmottes 2010-03-10 14:27:07 UTC 
Xavier: where is webkit init? Is that something that we could do when starting Empathy if you have an adium theme configured?
Comment 7 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-08-26 05:10:34 UTC 
It opens instantaneously for me on 3.4, closing as per comment #5.
Comment 8 Xavier Claessens 2012-08-26 11:13:32 UTC 
Note that empathy-chat loads the whole roster when you're chatting just with one contact. This is totally overkill IMO.