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Hi again, Charles. Nah, it's nothing so dramatic as all that. We had a major rewrite of the Software Center user interface for Oneric, and since this occurred quite late in the development cycle we had very little opportunity to do performance optimizations before release. The very slow startup was due in very large part to some processing that we were doing in the backend that naturally takes a long time, but we were starting it up before the UI was fully brought up and so it impacted startup time dramatically. The fix in the upcoming 5.0.2 update removes this problem, with the result that for my machine startup time is reduced to about one -tenth of what it is in 5.-.1.4. And we have additional optimizations in the works that will speed things up further.
Have you tried Software Center in Natty? It's quite speedy thanks to a mature codebase where we had the necessary performance optimizations in place. We will get there too with this version, early during the Precise cycle. Maybe, when it's fast again, you might give it another try. A lot of people quite appreciate the simplicity of Software Center, even hardcore programmer types have been known to like it. :)
Thanks again!
Best regards,
Gary