Wine associated program loads too slow

Hello,

It's true 20 seconds is quite a lot, but here are a few explanations :

- When you load a Wine app (provided there is no other wine app running), Wine has to load itself before the app, which usually takes a few seconds (unless you already launched it before -> some of Wine would then be cached in the RAM/swap, or unless you have a fast CPU).

- Adobe reader is, afair, slow. Many alternatives are faster, and the last time i fell on people speaking about windows PDF readers, some adobe reader users were saying stuff like "it loads fast : only takes 10 seconds"...

What would help in knowing if you're having a problem with Wine or not is trying to launch the notepad (possibly, make a clean wineprefix, launch notepad once in order to get the files in the wineprefix created, and then close it and launch it again to check the time Wine actually takes to launch).

Also, you should, imo, try Evince or Kghostviewer instead of Adobe Reader (especially since Adobe reader has a lot of security issues).

I think this isn´t a bug (with the Steve Dodier´s explanation) , I change it to invalid.

Sorry I have to disagree, Monkey, if the code is slow and I mean really slow then it should be notifying the desktop that it is slow by putting on the hour glass. This is not the case so the user is left wondering what the hell is going on. So they click the application again assuming that the program hasn't started.

Also some applications that are clicked don't even seem to ever start, its as if they have died silently.

Ignoring poor performing code just to get a bug counts down is not the way to better quality.

We should splash some sort of feedback on the screen when Wine is loading, especially if the app hasn't even started to load yet (eg the first run of wineserver can take a good 5 seconds or so if it hasn't been stored in memory).

I've got some different ideas about how to do this, but they'll need testing. They range from an hourglass cursor to a loading progress indicator.

The Unity panel opens an icon to show that a Wine app is loading.

I don't use Unity and for me your Wine build loads very fast (less than 3 sec.)
Xubuntu 12.10 x86

Unity creates an icon and Gnome creates and entry on the lower panel. So what is this mysterious environment in which there is no notification?

As it happens I've just tried "Open with.." and it doesn't work at all, but that's outside the scope of this "bug".