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[shane lee <shaneymail@xxxxxxxxx>]

It may speed up the launching of apps, which is a good thing but would
also slow down login would it not?

I'm not sure it's worth a longer login in order to load apps faster
that might not even be launched during a particular session.

Also, what affect would having these apps launched and using up RAM
have on lower end systems?

On 27 May 2012 11:30, supernova <supernova.it@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2012/5/27 Matt Richardson <m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> I like the idea but I don't think there is any need to leave the program
>> running.
>> The first time I run Nautilus, it takes about 8 seconds to load. Firefox is
>> about 5 and LibreOffice is about 10.
>> After that, Nautilus takes approximately 1 second, and Firefox and
>> LibreOffice take around 1.5. (These are all just me timing with my watch,
>> nothing accurate here)
>>
>> Maybe we could load those three and then close them; or at least we could
>> load the critical components of each so that the users only ever see the
>> latter speeds.
>>
>> Also, this subject is probably off-topic for this list and probably wants to
>> go to ubuntu-dev
> ok, thanks,
> Supernova
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>> On 27/05/12 10:53, supernova wrote:
>>>
>>> I got this idea: let's start automatically the icons on the launcher
>>> at login, or at least the most used (I know preload and so on...) as
>>> nautilus, firefox, libreoffice. This will give the perception of fast
>>> start at the first click.
>>> So as you log in nautilus will be opened and reduced to icon on the
>>> launcher. When a user clicks on nautilus icon, it will open as fast as
>>> it was reduced to icon, and not as if we had to open it for the first
>>> time.
>>> What do you all think?
>>>
>>> Well, it won't make Ubuntu run faster, but will give perception of it,
>>> but in some sense, world is perception and appearance...
>>>
>>>
>>> Supernova
>>>
>>
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