Public bug reported: Binary package hint: software-center
This is a suggestion against write-protected wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter Suggestion: Question "How do we specify performance requirements? Also need to specify progress feedback if launching is slow." Suggestion: Loading & parsing the package list is always too slow. Delay that until after Software Center has finished loading the GUI. If the first page requires data from package list, then pre-cache the data for the front page separately. This pre-caching could be done by a process (a "sources-updater-deamon") that also takes care of updating sources, since that is also one such slow thing that no user whishes to sit and wait up to a minute, when all the user really wants is to install i.e. GIMP ;-) and get on with their daily computing tasks. Another feature that needs to be available very soon after start is the search function. Perhaps this means that the sources list really needs to get parsed into a Sqlite database by that "sources-updater-deamon". (Reading further, it appears that the Software Center might already be using a DB of some kind :-) ** Affects: software-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- "How do we specify performance requirements? Also need to specify progress feedback if launching is slow." https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/516135 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
