At this point I am not sure where or what causes the stuttering so it needs some profiling.
Oh! I also just remembered why we disabled back in ye olden days...It was because the intel i915 driver ran out of texture memory when showing > 1000 icons. Don't know if this is fixed (or even fixable?) :-/
I pushed up lp:~kamstrup/unity-lens-applications/list-all-avail-apps with the requested feature. It does seem to cause quite some stuttering when searching. I'll try it on my el-cheapo netbook in a sec.
At this point I am not sure where or what causes the stuttering so it needs some profiling.
Oh! I also just remembered why we disabled back in ye olden days...It was because the intel i915 driver ran out of texture memory when showing > 1000 icons. Don't know if this is fixed (or even fixable?) :-/