[Bug 876210] Re: Ubuntu Software Center takes a long time to load

[Gary Lasker]

Hi again, Charles. Nah, it's nothing so dramatic as all that. We had a
major rewrite of the Software Center user interface for Oneric, and
since this occurred quite late in the development cycle we had very
little opportunity to do performance optimizations before release. The
very slow startup was due in very large part to some processing that we
were doing in the backend that naturally takes a long time, but we were
starting it up before the UI was fully brought up and so it impacted
startup time dramatically. The fix in the upcoming 5.0.2 update removes
this problem, with the result that for my machine startup time is
reduced to about one -tenth of what it is in 5.-.1.4. And we have
additional optimizations in the works that will speed things up further.

Have you tried Software Center in Natty? It's quite speedy thanks to a
mature codebase where we had the necessary performance optimizations in
place. We will get there too with this version, early during the Precise
cycle. Maybe, when it's fast again, you might give it another try. A lot
of people quite appreciate the simplicity of Software Center, even
hardcore programmer types have been known to like it. :)

Thanks again!

Best regards,
Gary

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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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