Comment 9 for bug 876210

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.