At last, a new Ubuntu release seems to have made a difference. With Xenial, I'm down to a couple of seconds or less populating the Dash first time on first login. I'm not sure if it's down to the new release since I already had a startup command to preload selected scopes according to Bruno Nova's suggestion under bug #1061852, and I guess the startup job may hve survuved the upgrade:
/usr/bin/unity-scope-loader applications/applications.scope applications/scopes.scope commands.scope Nonetheless, under 15.10, this didn't work anywhere nearly as well as it does in 16.04, so I guess the underlying problem has benefited from some of the groundwork in the new release. Just out of curiosity, I'll probably deactivate the startup job above to see what difference it makes. Anyway, having scope access times of less than two seconds on first login has not happened to me since before 12.04, so finally, Unity 7 seems to reach its full potential - just in time for it to be replaced by Unity 8... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Zeitgeist Framework Team, which is subscribed to Zeitgeist Framework. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/919801 Title: Unity dash file search is extremely slow Status in unity-lens-files: Incomplete Status in Zeitgeist Framework: Incomplete Status in unity-lens-files package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in zeitgeist package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: When I try to use the Unity dash search feature to navigate to files and folders, it is extremely slow. For example, if I hit the super button to launch the search and then type "Pictures" to get my pictures directory, it takes almost 5 seconds for the folder icon to show. In comparison, if I use Gnome-Do to navigate to my Pictures folder, it's basically instant. I have attached a video screencast so that you can see the problem for yourself. --- ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,move,vpswitch,place,session,imgpng,mousepoll,resize,gnomecompat,regex,snap,grid,wall,unitymtgrabhandles,animation,expo,ezoom,workarounds,fade,scale,unityshell] DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110413) NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: unity 5.0.0~+bzr1825ubuntu0+611 PackageArchitecture: i386 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9 Tags: oneiric running-unity Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic i686 UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (99 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-lens-files/+bug/919801/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zeitgeist Post to : zeitgeist@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zeitgeist More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
