Hi Charles, and thanks for your bug report. Indeed, the startup time for Software Center has regressed significantly with the change to the new user interface in Oneiric. Rest assured that the developers are well aware of this issue and it annoys them as much as it does you. ;) This is in fact the top priority usability fix for us right now.
The good news is that we have a new version of Software Center, 5.0.2, currently undergoing the SRU process in oneiric-proposed, and this new version improves startup time quite significantly. On my machine, Software Center takes 11.2 seconds to launch with the current version 5.0.1.5, and with the 5.0.2 update it takes only 1.3 seconds to launch. For reference, the version of Software Center in Natty (with the old user interface) took about .5 seconds to launch on my machine, so we are much closer to closing this "regression gap" now in Oneiric. If you would like to test version 5.0.2 for yourself while it is still in -proposed, please do so using the procedure described at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed, and let us know how it works for you. You can get a measurement of startup time in 5.0.2 (and 5.0.1.5) by launching software-center from the terminal as shown (note that this is only useful for making the measurement; startup time will be reported in the terminal output but the application itself will not launch): software-center --measure-startup-time I will leave this bug open as we continue to work on improving startup time. Thank you again! ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => software-center-developers (software-center-developers) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876210 Title: Ubuntu Software Center takes a long time to load Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: For a full description of the misery this bug is causing WORLDWIDE, see: Ubuntu “software-center” package Questions Question #174730 This is basically identical to Bug #641899, and I could have just attached my name to that one, but somebody decided that bug was too broad and so made it invalid. Fine, I'll be specific. The UBUNTU SOFTWARE CENTER TAKES TOO DANG LONG TO LOAD on Zotac ZBOX with Intel Atom cpu 1.8 GHz and 2 GB RAM. By TOO LONG I mean more than 20 seconds. I would file another two dozen bug reports on miserable program but this trackball I am being forced to use (yes, there's a goon with a gun to my head) is driving me nuts. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: software-center 5.0.1.4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Oct 16 22:04:25 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7 PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: software-center UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-15 (1 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/876210/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
