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Re: proposal for making ubuntu really faster

 

That way the perception of speed would only happen after enough usage has
happened to work out the most used apps, I think for now apps in the
launcher would be sufficient that way the first apps users are likely to
try after installing Ubuntu would be the fastest.

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Nekhelesh <krnekhelesh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> How about using Zeitgeist to help with this? Currently using the
> Privacy manager you can see the frequency of usage of applications. So
> there could a settings which if users enable will preload their most
> commonly used applications (based on zeitgeist). This way you give the
> user the choice to preload or not , and also the preloading of
> applications is done dynamically based on usage.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> On Sun 27 May 2012 02:25:59 PM CEST, Omar B. wrote:
> > Well LibreOffice has an option called *systray Quickstarter* in
> > options > memory.
> >
> > which barely uses memory (even on lower end systems) but loads LO very
> > fast.
> >
> > something like that can be used for this app (if its frequently used I
> > suppose).
> >
> > also I believe google chrome stays in memory and is why it launches so
> > fast.
> >
> > as for this topic maybe is better to discuss the details in the
> > suggested list.
> >
> > > Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 12:56:56 +0100
> > > From: shaneymail@xxxxxxxxx
> > > To: supernova.it@xxxxxxxxx
> > > CC: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Re: [Unity-design] proposal for making ubuntu really faster
> > >
> > > 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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