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[Gary Lasker <gary.lasker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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)

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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)

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