fredcw
commented
2 months ago Tbh, I don't really think there's much I can do about this. The scrolling is handled by the underlying graphics library rather than the applet itself. I'll have a think about it but I doubt I can do much.
Applet version/Build date
5.4.14
Cinnamon version
6.2.7
Distribution
Mint 22
Graphics hardware and driver used
Intel
Applet name and maintainer
Cinnamenu@json @fredcw
What happened?
I've recently taken upon myself to take old laptops and PCs from friends & family in Greece, and install Mint for them. I install Cinnamenu by default, as I find it a much more beautiful proposition to the default menu applet. Side by side, in my tests, people prefer cinnamenu, it looks more modern.
The problem is that scrolling (flicking on the touchpad to scroll the menu items) is too slow. It's like, 5-8 fps, there's massive lag and it doesn't flow. Please understand that I'm working with 5-15 year old computers. To give you an idea, on the cpu passmark benchmark, these computers range from 800 points to 5000 points (a Macbook Air M1 from 2020 has about 12000).
I wonder if some optimizations can be done to speed it up a bit. Mint is a great OS to run and convert people on countries like Greece, where there's not much ability to upgrade to new computers too often.
Other information
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