[sugar] perceived sugar performance

Michael Stone michael at laptop.org
Tue Apr 29 13:01:15 EDT 2008


> We have a completely different approach to activity launching in the
> works (I've been hacking it up myself...I need some help from the pros
> to finish it!)  

Why are we building a splash screen instead of speeding up activity
launch? We know that programs can put up full-screen windows in
0.1-0.5s.

> Do to window manager limitations, it's non-trivial (as I understand
> it) to prevent the system from automatically returning to the newly
> launched activity when its ready.  

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> Of course, the much desired interaction would be to allow the user to
> go elsewhere, *not* automatically return them, thus pulling them out
> of their working context, and instead show a standard notification to
> indicate that the launch was successful.

So why aren't we doing that?

Thanks,

Michael


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