Good news, I've been able to squeeze some more performance out of Onboard, with a lot of optimizations and a little bit of corner cutting. A warm start with Compact+Ambiance is down to around 6 seconds. The other themes a second or so less. Most typing has become more fluid too, the delays on modifier presses and layer switches are shorter most of the time. The splash-screen like empty frame on startup is gone, Onboard just pops into existence when it's ready. I'll mark the Onboard part as committed, but more speed improvements will likely come over time.
** Changed in: onboard Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cairo in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1070760 Title: 1st time running onboard with default theme is painfully slow Status in Onboard on-screen keyboard: Fix Committed Status in Ubuntu on the Nexus 7: Confirmed Status in “cairo” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The current behavior tweak of onboard is to hide it when the session starts. This leads to a useability issue when starting the dash for the first time, e.g. as the dash opens and an empty onboard frame is rendered but not usable for 45 seconds. I would prefer to have the keyboard opened when the session starts and pay the price then, rather than randomly irritating the user the first time he/she tries to do input. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/1070760/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp