Some how it seems to be related to the text in the window title or
something in that area. When i open Evince from the menu nothing happens
to the memory usage of gnome-panel. When i now open a PDF file with that
(empty) evince the memory usage of gnome-panel jumps up. If it open a
PDF from nautilus evince opens with the PDF and the memory usage of
gnome-panel jumps up.
the same thing seems to be the case with archive manager, when opened
from the menu nothing happens to gnome-panel memory usages, but when
double clicking a tar file in nautilus or open a new tar file, the
memory usage of gnome-panel jumps up.
On the other hand, opening a gnome-terminal and cd'ing around (that also
sets the window title) does nothing to the memory usage of gnome-panel.
Sounds to me like it has more to do with opening files with Gnome
programs than opening windows in general, which says to me
"gnome-recent", which is used by the panel. How much of a leak are we
talking about? More than would be expected for the menu item that it
adds for each opened file?
Bug number?
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Damian Christey <christey(a)csee.wvu.edu>