#7726 NORM -: Activities being installed (unziped) hog the CPU, temporarily freezing Sugar

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#7726: Activities being installed (unziped) hog the CPU, temporarily freezing
Sugar
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 Reporter:  HoboPrimate       |         Owner:  Eben                             
     Type:  defect            |        Status:  new                              
 Priority:  normal            |     Milestone:                                   
Component:  interface-design  |       Version:  Development build as of this date
 Keywords:                    |   Next_action:  never set                        
 Verified:  0                 |     Blockedby:                                   
 Blocking:                    |  
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 Activities take a while to finish unzipping (installing) their files after
 they are downloaded, during which they take over the CPU. This makes the
 Sugar UI freeze for over a minute in the case of Scratch. With no feedback
 the kid may assume the UI is permanently frozen, and shutdown the XO,
 leaving the installation of the activity broken.
 Either some kind of feedback should be shown when an activity is being
 installed on the XO, so the kid understands and waits for it to finish, or
 the unzipping process should not take over all of the cpu (or both, since
 the CPU may allways happen to reach 100% by multiple processes).

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7726>
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