Comment 55 for bug 919801

At last, a new Ubuntu release seems to have made a difference. With Xenial, I'm down to a couple of seconds or less populating the Dash first time on first login. I'm not sure if it's down to the new release since I already had a startup command to preload selected scopes according to Bruno Nova's suggestion under bug #1061852, and I guess the startup job may hve survuved the upgrade:

/usr/bin/unity-scope-loader applications/applications.scope applications/scopes.scope commands.scope

Nonetheless, under 15.10, this didn't work anywhere nearly as well as it does in 16.04, so I guess the underlying problem has benefited from some of the groundwork in the new release. Just out of curiosity, I'll probably deactivate the startup job above to see what difference it makes.

Anyway, having scope access times of less than two seconds on first login has not happened to me since before 12.04, so finally, Unity 7 seems to reach its full potential - just in time for it to be replaced by Unity 8...