Perhaps the UITK should be added to. The ActivityIndicator should not calculate the animations all the when visible is false.
Marking unity8 as invalid as this is what it takes to constantly render an animated app surface. It might be improved in QtMir, but not much that unity8 can do about it. ** Changed in: unity8 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Also affects: ubuntu-ui-toolkit Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1513450 Title: higher than expected cpu for unity8 Status in canonical-pocket-desktop: New Status in QtMir: New Status in Online Accounts setup for Ubuntu Touch: New Status in Ubuntu UI Toolkit: New Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: running in window mode, open u-s-s, run top unity8 running at ~40% cpu on N7 cpu freq ~1GHz no monitor attached To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-pocket-desktop/+bug/1513450/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp