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[Sergio Schvezov <sergio.schvezov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:34:06PM +0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
>> On 13 March 2014 12:10, Зонов Роман <roman2861@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Thank you for your work, but I'm telling about another thing. Then I
>> > turn on phone, firstly I see standard apps. After 5-10 seconds I see
>> > click apps in Apps scope. That is annoying.
>>
>> The apps scope, shows applications from the app store (not locally
>> installed), which is fetched over the internet on first boot, thus the
>> download delay.
>
> While this is true, it doesn't at all justify the described behaviour;
> installed apps should be displayable before any response is received
> from the network.

There's an open bug for this[1]

The bad side effect if on 2G/3G or any unstable network prone to
errors you can wait a long time to get apps listed.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity8/+bug/1249255