Comment 2 for bug 1092810

Hi Laryllan. This bug report covers eight issues: (1) launch speed overall (bug 1021779), (2) time to search field entry (bug 964903), (3) redrawing the GUI during launch, (4) installation time for large packages, (5) obviousness of installation completion, (6) search performance while installing software, (7) installation time for standalone .debs, and (8) slowdown when other programs are running.

These problems can't be fixed with a single code change, and therefore can't be tracked with a single bug report. It would be most useful if there were separate bug reports for the six that don't already have one (this could be one of them). Also helpful in those reports would be benchmarks of the time-based ones (1, 2, 4, 7, 8), and screencasts of the behavior-based ones (3, 5, 6).