As far as the profile change for the thumbnailer is concerned, it can
wait. It's not the end of the world if we can't get at the parameters on
the client side for the time being.

I don't want to belittle all the work that's already gone into the
policy compilation, so please don't take this the wrong way! We are
currently discussing some additional thumbnailer features. If they are
to go ahead, it'll require adding a new DBus method, which we can't do
because of the policy compilation cost.

In other words, we have a rather serious catch-22: the policy mechanism
is so expensive to reconfigure that it prevents us from adding new
features to services. Obviously, that's bad.

Could we maybe do the compilation at the end of the upgrade process,
before the restart? At that point, we still can do progress indicators
and, because the user expects upgrades to be slow, the experience would
be better that way.

If this isn't possible, at least showing a progress indicator during the
boot instead of a black screen would make a huge difference. I think the
problem isn't necessarily that things are slow, but that there is
absolutely no feedback.

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