loading application splashscreen is blurry and sometime not matching content

[Sebastien Bacher]

Using vivid-overlay r65, when starting application it seems a "screenshot" is used, which is blurry (which might be a design decision) and sometime doesn't match the application content (I just had the case that opening sound settings from the indicator gave a screenshot of the update panel from before the previous system upgrade that was then replaced by the correct one)

TEST CASE:
1. Open system-settings
2. Tap on wifi icon
3. Do a right edge swipe to switch system-settings to the background but don't close it
4. Press the power button and tap on 'Restart' to reboot the phone
5. Once rebooted, launch system-settings again

EXPECTED RESULT
System-settings loads, possibly shows a splash screen and displays the main panel

ACTUAL RESULT
It displays a screenshot of the state it was in at shutdown time (or a previous reboot)

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

It's the last screen of the app if you didn't close it properly (i.e. you either rebooted or the app was killed).

This is as it was designed so adding design for comments.

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

seeing this on a lot of apps when launching. seems like the splashscreen is shown very briefly, then switches to a screenshot of some previous state, then the correct app screen is shown.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

This only makes sense if we actually really open the app to the last screen which I assume was the intent

[Gerry Boland (gerboland)]

Yeah that was the intent, but we've no idea if apps are capable of doing this or not.

The blurriness was to save memory, but also to indicate to the suer that the app isn't live yet. If we fix the bluriness, we'll need some other way to indicate to the user the app is "resuming"

[kevin gunn (kgunn72)]

this is personal feedback for design - I don't think we should be displaying a screen shot as part of the application launch, because currently we have no idea of the context. I would say that this could only be done if there was some way for the application to intimate to the sdk (then the shell could check) that the app is using a "saved state" approach. Otherwise to the user this just appears as a stale frame.
i.e.
today it's
launch app -> splash screen -> last available screen shot -> fresh render from app

I think for any closed app it should be
launch app -> splash screen -> fresh render from app

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

there is a spinner on top of the screenshot, that should be enough to indicate it's resuming?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity8 - 8.10+15.10.20150713-0ubuntu1

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unity8 (8.10+15.10.20150713-0ubuntu1) wily; urgency=medium

  [ Albert Astals Cid ]
  * Revert Session Screenshotter (LP: #1473476)

  [ Daniel d'Andrada ]
  * Dismiss the apps spread if greeter gets shown (LP: #1471609)

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