Totem is slow (sluggish, synchronous UI) on startup when not launched with a video
@jfft
Submitted by Jean-François Fortin Tam Link to original bug (#784056)
Description
This bug was initially created as a clone of bug #728716 and bug #733182 (which I thought were still open but actually aren't). It seems part of the issue had been fixed in 728716 (playback smoothness), but the other part remains: the UI feels terribly sluggish and "blocking" when launching totem as a standalone app (instead of opening a video file directly from Nautilus).
There is no output on the terminal.
It happens even on very powerful modern machines (ex: an i5 6200U with SSDs and 8 GB of DDR4). Will attach a video to demonstrate the problem.
Version: 3.22.x