Recently, certain applications have begun taking larger than normal amounts of time to launch (from program called to window created).

Between the two applications of which I am aware, I have viewed their respective error/warning messages (on STDOUT) and found no comparable messages which could explain the phenomenon.

Two things come to mind when I ask myself: what changed? First, I think "well, I deleted some caches. Maybe they are still rebuilding their caches?" This fits with the music player (cantata), as it needs to cache many, many album covers. It does not, however, fit with the other application, ckb (ckb-next corsair mouse/keyboard configuration). The second thing that comes to mind is "Well, there was this big update. Maybe something changed in there?" At this time I assume that the latter is the explanation.

If it is the case that something in this update is causing the phenomenon I describe, I should note that I do not use Gnome or Budgie, but I do use GTK frameworks (both of the affected applications do as well). That said, not all GTK-integrated applications suffer. Lutris, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc. all bootstrap just fine.

Have any of the rest of you experienced things similar to this, either recently or in the past (for I understand the update may not be the root cause)? I'll appreciate any sense of "why" I can get from you folks.

Thanks,
Henry

I've been experiencing app startup delays too for a while. Glad it's being worked on. 😃

EbonJaeger
Thank you very much! I am relieved that I have not somehow screwed up my installation. If any info from me would be helpful, let me know - though it seems like you can reproduce everything just fine, so probably not.

    Thanks, team - I can certainly wait until things have been fixed and it's not really a dramatic problem at all to have to wait for an application to launch.

    Thanks again!
    SOLUS rocks!

    @SOLUSfiddler I would suggest installing the following gvfs package update, rebooting, and seeing if the respective delay(s) are gone. I'd appreciate if you could comment with the result (whether or not the package update resolved it) post-install + reboot on the task referenced by @EbonJaeger earlier.

    sudo eopkg install http://mirrors.rit.edu/solus/packages/unstable/g/gvfs/gvfs-1.48.1-64-1-x86_64.eopkg

      JoshStrobl, installing gvfs-1.48.1-64-1-x86_64.eopkg from unstable has fixed the issue here of some programs having a long delay in starting.

        Installed, rebooted. Problems gone now. Thank you all for working around the clock on this one.

        Thanks, all! All I had to do was run eopkg upgrade and it's all better.