Applications takes too long to show

[Mikko Ohtamaa]

Meerkat netbook meta.

Opening "Applications" either through task bar, already launched or cold boot, is way too slow. On my Asus Eee 1005HA PC it takes around 7 seconds.

Depending on the unity state 1) nothing happens 2) I am instantly switched to Applications view which is empty.

Looks like populating the menu takes too long and there is no feedback when it is in progress.

As a general suggestion I'd say open Applications instantly and show "Loading..." indicator while the menu icons/entries are generated or just show the menu entries with icon placeholders.

[Mikko Ohtamaa (mikko-red-innovation)]

The menu itself is very fast after it is open, so I assume pulling the icons from a cache or whatever grinds the system to a halt.

[Mikko Ohtamaa (mikko-red-innovation)]

Ok.

Testing this with

Package: unity
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Installed-Size: 484
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.2.46-0ubuntu4

Some bugs have been fixes and Applications is considerably faster now. However, it is still too slow to show.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open browser
2. Open applications
3. Click browser icon
4. Browser comes up instantly
5. Click Applications icon
6. 3 seconds delay
7. Applications show up
8. Click browser icon
9. Browser shows instantly

...so it is slow to view Application

[Mikko Ohtamaa (mikko-red-innovation)]

....so the duplicate status is wrong.