Comment 10 for bug 876210

I am surprised to hear about this after all this time. It's been 16 months.

I have given up on Ubuntu. This bug was just one indicator of what's wrong.
I have no interest in the social networking / smart phone integration that
seems to be your focus.

If I do anything more it will be with MINT or BEOS.

Cheers,

ccp

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:14 AM, AdamOutler <email address hidden> wrote:

> I'm seeing that the entire Software Center's window loads all at once.
> To me this says that rather than putting an emphasis on usability,
> there is an emphasis on completeness before displaying anything to the
> user. That was important back in the days of textual interfaces and
> smaller applications because everything needed to load in order to work.
> Today we focus more on HTML style apps where the user can wait for an
> image if he or she wants to see it.
>
> I think the solution here is to use concurrent threads for each
> operation.. one thread for a background "update", one thread for the
> "what's new" pull, one thread for "recommendations" one thread for "top
> Rated" and each item should start its own thread to pull an image. It
> should be more like the recommended Android design guidelines.. Get the
> space squared away, let the app start working and populate the fluff
> when posible.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876210
>
> Title:
> Ubuntu Software Center takes a long time to load
>
> Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in “software-center” source package in Oneiric:
> In Progress
>
> Bug description:
> For a full description of the misery this bug is causing WORLDWIDE,
> see: Ubuntu “software-center” package Questions Question
> #174730
>
> This is basically identical to Bug #641899, and I could have just
> attached my name to that one, but somebody decided that bug was too
> broad and so made it invalid.
>
> Fine, I'll be specific. The UBUNTU SOFTWARE CENTER TAKES TOO DANG LONG
> TO LOAD on Zotac ZBOX with Intel Atom cpu 1.8 GHz and 2 GB RAM. By TOO
> LONG I mean more than 20 seconds.
>
> I would file another two dozen bug reports on miserable program but
> this trackball I am being forced to use (yes, there's a goon with a
> gun to my head) is driving me nuts.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
> Package: software-center 5.0.1.4
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
> Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Oct 16 22:04:25 2011
> ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386
> (20110427.1)
> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
> PackageArchitecture: all
> SourcePackage: software-center
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-15 (1 days ago)
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