Previews for applications are really slow to display anything
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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software-center (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Critical
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Unassigned | ||
unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I'm seeing rightly on forums and generally the Internet that 100scopes previews are slow, combined with the fact that we now have the left click showing the preview by default frustrate a lot of users.
On my beefy machine (i7, 8G of rams), the preview for an application takes 3/4s to show, you can't do anything meanwhile as there is no button to launch the application (because you didn't double click, just left click and thought "argh, I should have double click").
Because of this, we are making the 1st landing of 100 scopes experience bad and we should fix it (at least, in that applicatoin lens) by either preloading the software-
Related branches
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in unity-lens-applications: | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
Changed in unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: 100scopes |
Changed in unity-lens-applications: | |
assignee: | nobody → Pawel Stolowski (stolowski) |
Changed in unity-lens-applications: | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in software-center: | |
assignee: | nobody → Samson (mickaelsamson22) |
assignee: | Samson (mickaelsamson22) → nobody |
Changed in unity-lens-applications: | |
status: | In Progress → Triaged |
importance: | Critical → Medium |
assignee: | Pawel Stolowski (stolowski) → nobody |
tags: | added: u1-notrack |
tags: | added: scopes-s |
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → eduardo (lalo7america) |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in unity-lens-applications: | |
status: | Triaged → New |
Changed in unity-lens-applications: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Confirmed |
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Confirmed |
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Changed in unity-lens-applications (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Changed in software-center: | |
assignee: | nobody → chaya (chaya-d-14) |
no longer affects: | software-center |
The attached lp:~stolowski/unity-lens-applications/sc-startup branch may or may not improve the situation by activating software- center- dbus on every search, thus giving it a slight edge over preview request. It helps in typical cases, but there are still cases where it won't help (e.g. search string doesn't change and Dash is re-opened after a few minutes - software- center- dbus is no longer alive and won't be started until preview request). Therefore I don't dare to call it a proper fix. The real fix requires significant re-work of software- center- dbus to make it more robust (e.g. load data lazily, instead of loading everything + doing network queries on startup) or abandon software- center- dbus in app-scope and obtain all the data directly.