[sugar] perceived sugar performance

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us> wrote:
> tomeu wrote:
>   > We cannot presume that _all_ activities will be able to put a window
>   > in 0.1-0.5s, and probably don't want all the activity authors to
>   > implement something like that.
>   >
>   > I see as a good thing to improve both feedback and launch performance.
>
>
>  in the "time i'd have otherwise wasted is free" department, is
>  there currently (or planned) a mechanism to always launch
>  designated activities (either fixed choices, or choices based on
>  recent journal entries) at startup?  i.e., if i always want
>  Terminal and/or Read running, then it would be good if their
>  startup time simply added to the boot time, rather than being
>  felt as an additional delay before i'm productive.  i'm not a
>  fan of "restore session" mechanisms -- i usually want to start
>  from a known, fixed, state -- but it might similarly accomplish
>  the goal of folding actiivity startup into boot time.
>
>  (forgive me if this feature has been under my nose for some time
>  without me noticing it.)

I don't think this feature is planned for any time soon, but you can
easily hack the shell code for adding more activities to start:

/usr/share/sugar/shell/view/Shell.py :

        if registry.get_activity('org.laptop.JournalActivity'):
            self.start_activity('org.laptop.JournalActivity')

Good luck,

Tomeu