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by zxzax 1809 days ago
The javascript is used mostly to drive the shell GUI, it shouldn't be taking seconds off all your mouse clicks. If there is really bad slowness, you should consider reporting that as a bug, it may not be the javascript that's at fault. The performance shouldn't be any worse than a typical lightweight web app running in firefox. That is of course if you ever end up using GNOME again for whatever reason.

I don't understand why you have to wonder what it's doing, the javascript is all self-contained and hosted locally. It's not using npm or anything like that. And the extensions are pretty much the same as any other app you use that supports plugins.
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pjmlp 1809 days ago
"Memory leak in gnome-shell JavaScript bindings"

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3410651

"GNOME Shell Performance Improvements in Ubuntu 20.04"

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/gnome-shell-performance-impro...

"Boosting the Real Time Performance of Gnome Shell 3.34 in Ubuntu 19.10"

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/boosting-the-real-time-perfor...

When I complain about GNOME performance, I am not making it up, learn that and bye.

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zxzax 1809 days ago
I don't understand what the issue here is or what you want me to learn, those seem to all be bugs that were already fixed. If there are additional unfixed problems that others aren't aware of, and you're not making it up, then please mention those, and maybe I can help you get them reported.
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fragmede 1807 days ago
The issue here is that those bugs should never have made it to 'prod'. For absolute die hard fans who say "Gnome or bust", you encounter a bug, you report it, track it, get it fixed, and things are better, until next time the same high level symptom - UI slowness - is introduced, through a different mechanism making it a "different" bug.

Thing is, not everyone is a die hard fan. Developers on Gnome, by definition, are, but outside of that, customers are going to go with what works. And that's not Gnome. Customer's don't care that the UI slowness in version 1 was caused by X, and UI slowness in version 2 was caused by Y. There was UI slowness, which made it unusable, and, well, now they're using XFCE or OS X or Windows. It doesn't matter that there was a bug and it was fixed a year ago. The problem is that there was a bug a year ago, and that particular customer is gone and can't be recaptured - they've got a solution that works and they're not looking to switch to a different one. Especially one that has a history of problems.

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